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CVE-2014-8169

Date: March 18, 2015

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8169
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-8169
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8169
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8169
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-8169

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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