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CVE-2015-5228 json

The service daemon in CRIU creates log and dump files insecurely, which allows local users to create arbitrary files and take ownership of…

published 10y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-5224

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The service daemon in CRIU creates log and dump files insecurely, which allows local users to create arbitrary files and take ownership of existing files via unspecified vectors related to a directory path.

Patch / fix

  • criu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5228

  • criu openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.9-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10278-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-5228 updated cvss 6.6

criu: arbitrary file creation and chown

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 crit, criu, python-criu
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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