CVE-2014-8169

Public on 2015-03-18
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description
It was found that program-based automounter maps that used interpreted languages such as Python would use standard environment variables to locate and load modules of those languages. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.6
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 autofs 2015-12-14 ALAS-2015-626 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P