CVE-2015-3643

high

Published 2017-09-28 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36820 local linux

Tavis Ormandy · 2015-04-23

usb-creator 0.2.x (Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/14.10) - Local Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Ubuntu Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.04	Not affected	—
14.10	Not affected	—
14.04	Not affected	—
12.04	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
usb-creator_project	usb-creator	`{"endIncluding":"0.2.38.3"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.