MSRXCVE-2015-3246
CVE-2015-3246
Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
CVSS 3.1 · CNA
chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS; higher than 95% of CVEs)
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.
Scores
Affected products
- n/a n/a: n/a
10 references (advisories, patches, write-ups)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76022 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162947.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/1537873 · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1482.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163044.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00000.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- https://www.qualys.com/2015/07/23/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246.txt · x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033040 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1483.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
Sources: CVE.org, OSV.dev, FIRST EPSS. Missing ones did not answer or have no record yet.