Upstream information

CVE-2017-8108 at MITRE

Description

Unspecified tests in Lynis before 2.5.0 allow local users to write to arbitrary files or possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1043463 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2017:1595-1

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`lynis >= 3.0.5-3.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11032

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jun 8 19:27:31 2017
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 3 18:48:39 2024