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CVE-2017-14484
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-269
Description
The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.
Affected products
- gentoo Sci-Mathematics-Gimps: 28.10
References
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