CVE-2017-14484

7.3 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.3) in gentoo sci-mathematics-gimps. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.3 high

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2017-09-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gentoo:sci-mathematics-gimps

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408

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