CVE-2017-14484

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CVSS 3.0

7.3 high

EPSS

<1%p19

Published

Sep 15, 2017 (Sep 15, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.

Vendors: gentoo
Products: sci-mathematics-gimps
Weakness: CWE-269
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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