Red Hat policycoreutils 2.2.5 Privileges access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Red Hat policycoreutils 2.2.5. This affects an unknown function of the component Privileges. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-3215. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat policycoreutils 2.2.5. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Privileges. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

seunshare in policycoreutils 2.2.5 is owned by root with 4755 permissions, and executes programs in a way that changes the relationship between the setuid system call and the getresuid saved set-user-ID value, which makes it easier for local users to gain privileges by leveraging a program that mistakenly expected that it could permanently drop privileges.

The weakness was published 05/08/2014 by Andy Lutomirski (Website). The advisory is shared at openwall.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-3215 since 05/03/2014. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/21/2022). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 75379 (openSUSE Security Update : libcap-ng (openSUSE-SU-2014:0736-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 155221 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3032)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (93138), Tenable (75379), SecurityFocus (BID 67341†), Secunia (SA59007†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-44803†). Similar entries are available at VDB-68498, VDB-91440 and VDB-113053. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 75379
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : libcap-ng (openSUSE-SU-2014:0736-1)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: RHSA-2015:0864
Researcher: Andy Lutomirski
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-3215 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-3215
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-69605
X-Force: 93138
SecurityFocus: 67341 - policycoreutils seunshare CVE-2014-3215 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 59007
Vulnerability Center: 44803 - SELinux Policycoreutils 2.2.5 Local Privileges Escalation via a setuid System Call, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/25/2015 16:45
Updated: 03/21/2022 09:07
Changes: 03/25/2015 16:45 (62), 05/30/2017 10:49 (7), 03/21/2022 09:06 (3), 03/21/2022 09:07 (1)
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