CVE-2014-3215

Published May 8, 2014

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.9
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:selinuxproject:policycoreutils:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "F010D863-2E14-47EB-A932-B39C37ACDD3B"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References