Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package steam  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.78% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-STEAM-620718
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5237  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

Valve Steam 3.42.16.13 uses weak permissions for the files in the Steam program directory, which allows local users to modify the files and possibly gain privileges as demonstrated by a Trojan horse Steam.exe file.