CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14484

7.3 HIGH Published 2017-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-269

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.

Affected configurations

• gentoo sci-mathematics-gimps 28.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References