UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15131

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15131
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15131.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15131
Upstream
Withdrawn
2026-02-12T04:53:56Z
Published
2018-01-09T21:29:00Z
Modified
2026-02-12T06:28:09.370697Z
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
  • Ubuntu - low
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

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / xdg-user-dirs

Package

Name
xdg-user-dirs
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/xdg-user-dirs@0.17-2ubuntu4?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

0.*
0.17-2ubuntu3
0.17-2ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "xdg-user-dirs",
            "binary_version": "0.17-2ubuntu4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15131.json"