CVE-2020-7458

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

2%p78

Published

Jul 9, 2020 (Jul 9, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r362281, 11.4-STABLE before r362281, and 11.4-RELEASE before p1, long values in the user-controlled PATH environment variable cause posix_spawnp to write beyond the end of the heap allocated stack possibly leading to arbitrary code execution.

Vendors: freebsd
Products: freebsd
Weakness: CWE-787
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.9%)

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