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CVE-2016-4982

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

authd sets weak permissions for /etc/ident.key, which allows local users to obtain the key by leveraging a race condition between the creation of the key, and the chmod to protect it.

Affected products

• Teether Authd: all versions

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346051
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346051

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