Privilege Escalation and Command Execution Vulnerability in getopt_simple

CVE-2019-9891 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The function getopt_simple as described in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide (ISBN 978-1435752184) allows privilege escalation and execution of commands when used in a shell script called, for example, via sudo.

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