CVE-2017-14484

HIGH

Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps <28.10-r1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.

References (1)

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 8.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-269

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gentoo/sci-mathematics-gimps

Timeline

Published Sep 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026