CVE-2014-8169

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.

Affected products

Automount Project Automount: 5.0.8
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1

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