CVE-2015-8946

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: 2016-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ecryptfs-setup-swap in eCryptfs before 111 does not prevent the unencrypted swap partition from activating during boot when using GPT partitioning and certain versions of systemd, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 15.10, 16.04
Ecryptfs-Utils: through 110

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/14/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3032-1
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/857
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/14/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3032-1
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/857
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282

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