Overview
- Description
- The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.3
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.3
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
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-269
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:sci-mathematics-gimps:28.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "AEF6A92C-F52E-4133-8EEE-5DDAF1955E38"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]