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Vulnerability CVE-2017-14484
Published: 2017-09-15
| 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. |
Type:
CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
6.9/10 |
10/10 |
3.4/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Medium |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Complete |
Complete |
Complete |
References: |
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408
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