CVE-2015-3246

Red Hat · Published August 11, 2015

5.1

CVSS v3.1

MEDIUM

CISA KEV — Federal agencies must patch by deadline

Actively exploited in the wild

Description

libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, directly modifies /etc/passwd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (inconsistent file state) by causing an error during the modification. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2015-3245 to gain privileges.

Affected Products

Libuser <= 0.56.13-5
Libuser

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H