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Bug 919488 (CVE-2023-49284) - <app-shells/fish-3.7.0: command substitution output can trigger shell expansion
Summary: <app-shells/fish-3.7.0: command substitution output can trigger shell expansion
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: CVE-2023-49284
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-sh...
Whiteboard: B3 [stable?]
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Reported: 2023-12-08 20:01 UTC by Christopher Fore
Modified: 2024-04-21 20:35 UTC (History)
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Description Christopher Fore 2023-12-08 20:01:40 UTC
CVE-2023-49284 (https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/security/advisories/GHSA-2j9r-pm96-wp4f):

fish shell uses certain Unicode non-characters internally for marking wildcards and expansions. It will incorrectly allow these markers to be read on command substitution output, rather than transforming them into a safe internal representation.

While this may cause unexpected behavior with direct input (for example, echo \UFDD2HOME has the same output as echo $HOME), this may become a minor security problem if the output is being fed from an external program into a command substitution where this output may not be expected. 

The above has been fixed in 3.6.2
Comment 1 Mike Limansky 2023-12-18 14:15:07 UTC
Hi,

 I've checked simple bump from 3.6.1 to 3.6.4 and it works fine for me.