Shellshock vulnerability
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Shellshock vulnerability (aka CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169) is a security bug affecting Unix-like operating systems through the bash shell. Disclosed on September 24 2014, it has been rated 10 (the maximum score) for severity by NIST.[1] Since a first patch resulted defective, a new patch was released and NIST assigned a second code to the bug.[2] Shellshock affects Bash versions between 1.14 and 4.3 which are used on many Linux distributions, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. Some web servers also rely upon Bash to execute CGI scripts, and this bug could allow the execution of malicious code from remote.
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