CVE-2017-15131

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Red Hat, Inc.RHEL shipped xdg-user-dirs and gnome-sessionbefore 0.15-5affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-284: CWE-284

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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