CVE-2015-7543

Publication date 25 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

aRts 1.5.10 and kdelibs3 3.5.10 and earlier do not properly create temporary directories, which allows local users to hijack the IPC by pre-creating the temporary directory.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
kde4libs	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

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Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.0 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.0 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=blobdiff&h=8c0f6401271c495c68e340e06b09239eb755ce5e&hp=45b72f0d5c3421b571e9515497352a0a9942a075&hb=cc5515ed7ce8884c9b18169158ba29ab2f7a3db7&f=kinit%2Flnusertemp.c
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7543