DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15131
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131
Upstream
Published
2018-01-09T21:29:00.373Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:12:57.576252Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / xdg-user-dirs

Package

Name
xdg-user-dirs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xdg-user-dirs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.17-2
0.18-1
0.18-2
0.18-3
0.19-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131.json"

Debian:12 / xdg-user-dirs

Package

Name
xdg-user-dirs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xdg-user-dirs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.18-1
0.18-2
0.18-3
0.19-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131.json"

Debian:13 / xdg-user-dirs

Package

Name
xdg-user-dirs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xdg-user-dirs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.18-2
0.18-3
0.19-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131.json"

Debian:14 / xdg-user-dirs

Package

Name
xdg-user-dirs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xdg-user-dirs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.18-2
0.18-3
0.19-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15131.json"