It was found that program-based automounter maps that used interpreted languages such as Python would use standard environment variables to locate and load modules of those languages. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | autofs | 2015-12-14 10:00 | ALAS-2015-626 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |