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Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package autofs  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-AUTOFS-11736260
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed18 Mar 2015
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Introduced: 18 Mar 2015

CVE-2014-8169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream autofs package and not the autofs package as distributed by Debian.

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.