CVE-2011-1835

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

The encrypted private-directory setup process in utils/ecryptfs-setup-private in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly ensure that the passphrase file is created, which might allow local users to bypass intended access restrictions at a certain time in the new-user creation steps.

The encrypted private-directory setup process in utils/ecryptfs-setup-private in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly ensure that the passphrase file is created, which might allow local users to bypass intended access restrictions at a certain time in the new-user creation steps.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-02-15 14:57:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-03-08 04:47:00

Affected Software

Ecryptfs Ecryptfs-utils 86

86

Ecryptfs Ecryptfs-utils

References

SUSE-SU-2011:0898

USN-1188-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729465

Vendor Advisory

https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+download

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