VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2017-15131
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.32%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-01-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions
- CWE-284: Improper Access Control