CVE-2016-4982

medium

Published 2017-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

4.7

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.7

Description

authd sets weak permissions for /etc/ident.key, which allows local users to obtain the key by leveraging a race condition between the creation of the key, and the chmod to protect it.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

47%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
teether	authd	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.