PT-2018-5777 · Freedesktop.Org+4 · Xdg-User-Dirs+4

Ross Tyler · Published 2018-01-09 · Updated 2023-02-12 · CVE-2017-15131

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: xdg-user-dirs versions prior to 0.15.5

Description: A issue was found where the system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories. This occurs because Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting the umask policy.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.15.5, update to version 0.15.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Access Control

Incorrect Default Permissions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

CWE-276

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-2846

ALT-PU-2019-2847

CESA-2018_0842

CVE-2017-15131

MGASA-2018-0215

RHSA-2018:0842

RHSA-2018_0842

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Debian

Red Hat

Xdg-User-Dirs

References · 14

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15131 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15131 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0215.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0842 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15131 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0215 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15131 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15131 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15131 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102303 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22889 · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762 · Note