CVE-2017-15131 (GCVE-0-2017-15131)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-09 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab664… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat, Inc. | RHEL shipped xdg-user-dirs and gnome-session |
Affected:
before 0.15-5
|
guessed |
Date Public
2017-05-24 00:00
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