CVE-2015-8842

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf in systemd before 229 uses weak permissions for /var/log/journal/%m/system.journal, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00109.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/08/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/08/15
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972612
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/afae249efa4774c6676738ac5de6aeb4daf4889f
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00109.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/08/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/08/15
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972612
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/afae249efa4774c6676738ac5de6aeb4daf4889f

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