CVE-2017-15131

CVE Details

Release Date:

2018-07-30

Description

It was found that system umask policy is not being honored whencreating 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.

See more information about CVE-2017-15131 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.6	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (xdg-user-dirs)	ELSA-2018-0842	2018-04-16

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