CVE-2020-15167

HIGH 8.6CVE-2020-15167 · Published 02/09/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-15167 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.6) vulnerability affecting miller (johnkerl).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.43%, higher than 37.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
miller johnkerl	`= 5.9.0`	No fix yet

Description

In Miller (command line utility) using the configuration file support introduced in version 5.9.0, it is possible for an attacker to cause Miller to run arbitrary code by placing a malicious `.mlrrc` file in the working directory. See linked GitHub Security Advisory for complete details. A fix is ready and will be released as Miller 5.9.1.

References

johnkerl/miller security advisory · Exploit

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