CVE-2017-15131

Summary

CVECVE-2017-15131
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-09 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:28:00 UTC
DescriptionIt was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-284

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freedesktop Xdg-user-dirs All All All All
Application Freedesktop Xdg-user-dirs All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All

References

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Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685a... MISC lists.apache.org
1455094 – (CVE-2017-15131) CVE-2017-15131 xdg-user-dirs, gnome-session: Xsession creation of XDG user directories does not honor system umask policy MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
1412762 – Xsession creation of XDG user directories does not honor system umask policy CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
CVE-2017-15131 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
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