Vulnerability in Selinuxproject Policycoreutils
CVE-2014-3215
seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (27.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 27.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Selinuxproject Policycoreutils — versions 2.2.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/67341 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html (vendor-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1 (mailing-list)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html
- secunia.com/advisories/59007 (third-party-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7 (mailing-list)