CVE-2014-2905: Fishshell Fish

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fish (aka fish-shell) 1.16.0 before 2.1.1 does not properly check the credentials, which allows local users to gain privileges via the universal variable socket, related to /tmp/fishd.socket.user permissions.

Affected products

• Fishshell Fish: version 1.16.0 only; version 2.0.0 only

Published 2014-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.