CVE-2015-5228
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.38% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 32.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-06-07 14:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 06:41Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-07-01
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 25633b39afc837f0c40dd542b8563ac95bf5fdf3c1eae30985bfd07ba85b7cff
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150825 CVE-2015-5228 & CVE-2015-5231 in the criu service daemonhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/25/5
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:1593http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00030.html
- lists.openvz.org[CRIU] 20150825 Hardening the criu service daemonhttps://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-August/021847.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255782
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- criu Fixed in 1.8-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- criu Fixed in 1.8-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- criu Fixed in 1.8-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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