CVE-2014-8169 vulnerability in Red Hat Products
Published on March 18, 2015
automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.
Products Associated with CVE-2014-8169
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.11%
Percentile
29.34%
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