{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1946 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2008-1946 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 28 Jul 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-1946 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-1946 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 28 Jul 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1946 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1946/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1946/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-1946","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1946/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-1946","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1946","GHSA-g5g9-cj86-gxc8","RHSA-2008:0780"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU coreutils su","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can gain privileges of locked or expired accounts via the su command due to improper PAM configuration in GNU 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n/a","id":"CVE-2015-1865","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-09-20"},{"cvss_score":4.6,"headline":"Out‑of‑bounds Read in GNU coreutils","id":"CVE-2026-56391","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-07-24"},{"cvss_score":4.6,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-2781","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-02-07"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can gain privileges of locked or expired accounts via the su command due to 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