Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-8169 First vendor Publication 2015-03-18
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
Calculate full CVSS 2.0 Vectors scores

Detail

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8169

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29148
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29148
Title: SUSE-SU-2015:1020-1 -- Security update for autofs (moderate)
Description: autofs was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2014-8169: Prevent potential privilege escalation via interpreter load path for program-based automount maps (bnc#917977). These non-security issues were fixed: - Dont pass sloppy option for other than nfs mounts (bnc#901448, bnc#916203)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2015:1020-1
CVE-2014-8169
 Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
 Product(s): autofs
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-12-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20151119_autofs_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-15 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-626.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-02 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-2417.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-24 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2417.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-2417.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-04 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150722_autofs_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1344.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-1344.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-23 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-1344.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-10 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1020-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2579-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-220.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211
CONFIRM http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-271964...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977
REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1

Alert History

If you want to see full details history, please login or register.
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Date Informations
2023-02-13 05:28:11
  • Multiple Updates
2023-02-03 00:28:27
  • Multiple Updates
2021-05-04 12:34:53
  • Multiple Updates
2021-04-22 01:42:23
  • Multiple Updates
2020-05-23 00:42:38
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-31 00:20:40
  • Multiple Updates
2018-01-26 12:05:49
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-03 09:23:00
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-29 00:24:57
  • Multiple Updates
2016-10-15 09:24:39
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-30 21:25:44
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-27 01:23:57
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-23 13:25:38
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-16 13:26:15
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-05 13:26:42
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-03 13:26:23
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-21 13:25:40
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-26 09:29:56
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-12 13:33:00
  • Multiple Updates
2015-07-31 13:28:44
  • Multiple Updates
2015-07-24 13:29:13
  • Multiple Updates
2015-06-11 13:27:37
  • Multiple Updates
2015-04-29 13:28:38
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-19 05:25:28
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-18 21:27:03
  • First insertion