CVE-2015-3643

Publication date 28 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

usb-creator before 0.2.38.3ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 0.2.62ubuntu0.3 on Ubuntu 14.10, and before 0.2.67ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a missing call check_polkit for the KVMTest method.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
usb-creator 15.04 vivid
Fixed 0.2.67ubuntu0.1
14.10 utopic
Fixed 0.2.62ubuntu0.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.2.56.3ubuntu0.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.2.38.3ubuntu0.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

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

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