CVE-2014-3215

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-3215
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-05-08 10:55:05 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
Descriptionseunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Selinuxproject Policycoreutils 2.2.5 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0251 - Updated libcap-ng packages fix CVE-2014-3215 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org
oss-security - Re: local privilege escalation due to capng_lock as used in seunshare af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:156 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
oss-security - local privilege escalation due to capng_lock as used in seunshare af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Security Advisory SA59007 - SUSE update for policycoreutils - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
oss-security - Re: local privilege escalation due to capng_lock as used in seunshare af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
openSUSE-SU-2014:0749-1: moderate: libcap-ng:policycoreutils setuid() fi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
policycoreutils seunshare CVE-2014-3215 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Oracle Linux Bulletin - January 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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