CVE-2014-8169

autofs: priv escalation via interpreter load path for program based automount maps

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 2, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

It was found that program-based automounter maps that used interpreted languages such as Python would use standard environment variables to locate and load modules of those languages. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of autofs package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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