CVE-2015-3643

published 2017-09-28

CVE-2015-3643: usb-creator before 0.2.38.3ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 0.2.62ubuntu0.3 on Ubuntu 14.10, and before…

Priority P3 46 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

usb-creator before 0.2.38.3ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 0.2.62ubuntu0.3 on Ubuntu 14.10, and before 0.2.67ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a missing call check_polkit for the KVMTest method.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
usb-creator_project	usb-creator	<= 0.2.38.3	—
usb-creator_project	usb-creator	<= 0.2.56.3	—
usb-creator_project	usb-creator	<= 0.2.62ubuntu0.2	—
usb-creator_project	usb-creator	<= 0.2.67	—
usb-creator_project	usb-creator	>= 0 < 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1	0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 7.8 HIGH

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