CVSS 3.0
7.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-5759
High (7.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current working directory "." allows local users to trick the administrator into executing code as root.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- novell:suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
- novell:suse_linux_enterprise_server
- opensuse:leap