CVE-2017-15131

CVSS V2 Medium 4.6 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-15131
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-01-09T21:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-12T23:28:53
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-284 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/284.html
CWE-276 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/276.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:xdg-user-dirs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 0.15.5
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.6
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15131
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762 Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1455094
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15131
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15131
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:21:42 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 00:47:32 2018-01-09T21:29Z 2018-01-09T21:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 00:47:32 2021-02-25T17:15:21 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 00:47:32 Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 16:07:09 2023-02-02T15:17:19 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 16:07:11 Weakness Enumeration update
2023-02-02 16:07:11 It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was found that the system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories (~/Desktop etc) on first login. This could lead to user's files being inadvertently exposed to other local users. Description updated
2023-02-02 16:07:13 References updated
2023-02-13 00:07:09 2023-02-12T23:28:53 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 00:07:11 Weakness Enumeration update
2023-02-13 00:07:12 It was found that the system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories (~/Desktop etc) on first login. This could lead to user's files being inadvertently exposed to other local users. It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Description updated