CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15131

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-01-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-276, CWE-284

Description

It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Affected configurations

• freedesktop xdg-user-dirs (< 0.15.5) • redhat enterprise linux 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References