CVE-2013-6889: GNU Rush

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU Rush 1.7 does not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via the --lint option.

Affected products

• GNU Rush: version 1.7 only

Published 2014-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.