CVE-2014-8169 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can gain privileges via Trojan horse programs in home directories when automount uses interpreted language maps.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-8169?
CVE-2014-8169 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 18 Mar 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8169?
It affects 6 products.
Linux distribution packages (20)
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 1:5.0.5-113.el6 |
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 1:5.0.7-54.el7 |
autofs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | All versions | 5.0.9-8.1 |
autofs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 | All versions | 5.0.9-8.1 |
autofs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 | All versions | 5.0.9-8.1 |
autofs openSUSE:Tumbleweed | All versions | 5.1.1-3.5 |
Products include Automount Project Automount, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.
How do I fix CVE-2014-8169?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2014-8169 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8169 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8169, GHSA-q56m-rhvg-jwg2, RHSA-2015:1344, RHSA-2015:2417, SUSE-SU-2015:1020-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:10319-1.