CVE-2015-3245

lowpriority · track · 20EPSS 0.054 · 93 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

3 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

5.39% (93rd) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the chfn function in libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, allows local users to cause a denial of service (/etc/passwd corruption) via a newline character in the GECOS field.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

2.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v2.02lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Fsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimary

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/linux/local/libuser_roothelper_priv_escLibuser roothelper Privilege Escalationweaponized · metasploit
EDB-37706Libuser Library - Multiple Vulnerabilitiesfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-44633Libuser - 'roothelper' Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
redhat libuser≤ 0.56.13-5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:libuser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat libuser= 0.60-1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:libuser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat libuser= 0.60-2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:libuser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat libuser= 0.60-3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:libuser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat libuser= 0.60-4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:libuser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat libuser= 0.60-5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:libuser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat libuser= 0.60-6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:libuser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2015-08-11modified 2026-06-17

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references (32)

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