CVSS 3.0
7.0 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-4445
High (7.0). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The fix_lookup_id function in sealert in setroubleshoot before 3.2.23 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as root by triggering an SELinux denial with a crafted file name, related to executing external commands with the commands.getstatusoutput function.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-77
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- setroubleshoot_project:setroubleshoot