CVE-2017-15131

It 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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-01-09

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-276, CWE-284

Affected products

• Xdg-user-dirs (Freedesktop)
• Rhel Shipped Xdg-user-dirs And Gnome-session (Red Hat Inc.)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org…