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CVE-2016-4989

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 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: 2017-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

setroubleshoot allows local users to bypass an intended container protection mechanism and execute arbitrary commands by (1) triggering an SELinux denial with a crafted file name, which is handled by the _set_tpath function in audit_data.py or via a crafted (2) local_id or (3) analysis_id field in a crafted XML document to the run_fix function in SetroubleshootFixit.py, related to the subprocess.check_output and commands.getstatusoutput functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4445.

Affected products

• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• Setroubleshoot Project Setroubleshoot: through -

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/574
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1036144
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1293
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346461
• https://github.com/fedora-selinux/setroubleshoot/commit/dda55aa50db95a25f0d919c3a0d5871827cdc40f
• https://github.com/fedora-selinux/setroubleshoot/commit/e69378d7e82a503534d29c5939fa219341e8f2ad
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1267.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/574
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1036144
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1293
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346461
• https://github.com/fedora-selinux/setroubleshoot/commit/dda55aa50db95a25f0d919c3a0d5871827cdc40f

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