CVE-2014-0475: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass ForceCommand restrictions and possibly have other unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in a (1) LC_*, (2) LANG, or other locale environment variable.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: up to and including 2.19; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …

Published 2014-07-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.