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CVE-2014-3215

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3215 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in seunshare within policycoreutils 2.2.5, affecting SELinux-enabled systems. The flaw arises because seunshare, owned by root with setuid permissions, mishandles the relationship between setuid and getresuid, allowing local users to gain privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has a local attack vector and medium attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:selinuxproject:policycoreutils:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libcap-ng-0:0.7.5-4.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: policycoreutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libcap-ng
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: policycoreutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: selinux-policy

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3215Important

policycoreutils: local privilege escalation via seunshare

Dec 8, 2012

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0251.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00008.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/05/08/1
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
secunia.com / advisories/59007
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
securityfocus.com / bid/67341