CVE-2017-15131

HIGH

xdg-user-dirs < 0.15.5 - Improper Access Control via Umask Policy Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0032

EPSS Percentile 23.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-276 CWE-284

Status published

Products (2)

freedesktop/xdg-user-dirs < 0.15.5

redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0

Published Jan 09, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026