CVE Vulnerabilities

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
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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_hpc_node Redhat 6.0 6.0
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 6.0 6.0
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 6.0 6.0
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 6.0 6.0

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