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CVE-2014-8169

Published: Mar 18, 2015 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.6 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8169
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling users 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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_hpc_node Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat autofs-1:5.0.5-113.el6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat autofs-1:5.0.7-54.el7 *
Autofs Ubuntu devel *
Autofs Ubuntu upstream *
Autofs Ubuntu utopic *
Autofs Ubuntu vivid *
Autofs5 Ubuntu upstream *

References

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