CVE-2015-8222

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

The lxd-unix.socket systemd unit file in the Ubuntu lxd package before 0.20-0ubuntu4.1 uses world-readable permissions for /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

The lxd-unix.socket systemd unit file in the Ubuntu lxd package before 0.20-0ubuntu4.1 uses world-readable permissions for /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-11-17 15:59:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2015-11-18 19:33:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10

15.10

References

USN-2809-1

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1515689

https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1307

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