High severity · published Jan 9, 2018
CVE-2017-15131
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
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
XD
Xdg-user-dirs · Freedesktop
before 0.15.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15131
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15131
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E