CVE-2015-8621 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

t-coffee before 11.00.8cbe486-2 allows local users to write to ~/.t_coffee globally.

Published: 2017-08-07

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tcoffee:t-coffee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-8498	t-coffee before 11.00.8cbe486-2 allows local users to write to ~/.t_coffee globally.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00062.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-8621
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/4
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751579
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8621.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8621/

History

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Subscriptions

Tcoffee T-coffee

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-07T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:20:43.665Z

Reserved: 2015-12-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8621

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-07T17:29:00.503

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-8621

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-264

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