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CVE-2017-15131

Public on 2018-01-09
Modified on 2018-06-11
Description

It was found that the system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories (~/Desktop etc) on first login. This could lead to user's files being inadvertently exposed to other local users.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core xdg-user-dirs 2018-06-07 23:25 ALAS2-2018-1030

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H