Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting ldns package, versions [,1.7.0-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LDNS-2370073
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-3209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ldns to version 1.7.0-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment. The ldns-keygen tool in ldns 1.6.x uses the current umask to set the privileges of the private key, which might allow local users to obtain the private key by reading the file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1