CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.3. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2017-14484
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.3
EPSS
0.27%
Original NVD Description
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.
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