A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Enlightenment Window Manager 0.17.5. This affects an unknown function of the component Helper. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An unspecified setuid root helper in Enlightenment before 0.17.6 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging failure to properly sanitize the environment.

The weakness was shared 01/30/2014 as CVE request: enlightenment sysactions as confirmed mailinglist post (oss-sec). The advisory is shared at seclists.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-1845 since 02/02/2014. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue. The advisory points out:

Users in select groups could exploit this to execute arbitrary programs as root.

Upgrading to version 0.17.6 or 0.18.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at git.enlightenment.org. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (91216). The entry 12368 is related to this item.

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