CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-1421

Published: Nov 25, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1421
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

mountall 1.54, as used in Ubuntu 14.10, does not properly handle the umask when using the mount utility, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Ubuntu_linux	Canonical	14.10 (including)	14.10 (including)
Mountall	Ubuntu	devel	*
Mountall	Ubuntu	utopic	*

References

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