CVE-2017-14484

CVSS V2 Medium 6.9 CVSS V3 High 7.3

Description

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2017-14484

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2017-09-15T10:29:00

Last Modified Date
2019-10-03T00:03:26

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-269	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:sci-mathematics-gimps:28.10:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
6.9

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
3.4

Impact Score
10

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.3

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
1.3

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14484
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14484

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:22:41				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 21:04:29	2017-09-15T10:29Z	2017-09-15T10:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 21:04:29		2019-10-03T00:03:26	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 21:04:29		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated