CVE-2016-7543

HIGH 8.4CVE-2016-7543 · Published 19/01/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-7543 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.4) vulnerability affecting bash (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.58%, higher than 47.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bash gnu	`≤ 4.3`	No fix yet

Bash before 4.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via crafted SHELLOPTS and PS4 environment variables.

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