CVE-2014-3215
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (30th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3232)
- Published
- May 8, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3232 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- selinuxproject / policycoreutils
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0251.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59007
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:156
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67341
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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