CVE-2015-3246

38Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 6.8%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 11

1st PoCJul 27

metasploitJul 24

exploitation probability

6.8%top 7% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/37706unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163044.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162947.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00000.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1482.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1483.html https://access.redhat.com/articles/1537873 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633/https://www.qualys.com/2015/07/23/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76022 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033040