CVE-2015-3248

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

openhpi/Makefile.am in OpenHPI before 3.6.0 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/openhpi directory, which allows local users, when quotas are not properly setup, to fill the filesystem hosting /var/lib and cause a denial of service (disk consumption).

Affected products

Openhpi: through 3.5.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168841.html
http://openhpi.org/Changelogs/3.6.0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233521
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168841.html
http://openhpi.org/Changelogs/3.6.0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233521

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