CVE-2008-1845
The Korn shell (aka mksh) before R33d on MirOS (aka MirBSD) does not flush the tty's I/O when invoking mksh in a new terminal, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a virtual terminal
02 Description
The Korn shell (aka mksh) before R33d on MirOS (aka MirBSD) does not flush the tty's I/O when invoking mksh in a new terminal, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a virtual terminal
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.33% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 26.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-04-16 17:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 08:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-04-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 60f376317c3ff8a5b0695e23cdc5d1781d81d045b74ea57c128cdc2739a5667f
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.osvdb.org44365http://www.osvdb.org/44365
- www.securityfocus.com28768http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28768
- secunia.com29803http://secunia.com/advisories/29803
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commirbsd-tty-privilege-escalation(41794)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41794
- www.mirbsd.orghttp://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#clog
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mksh Fixed in 33.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mksh Fixed in 33.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mksh Fixed in 33.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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