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CVE-2017-15131
It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh…
High7.8EPSS 0.32%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat, Inc. · RHEL shipped xdg-user-dirs and gnome-session
- affected before 0.15-5
References (3)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412762 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0842 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
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