CVE-2015-3643

Publication date 28 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

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

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

CVE-2015-3643

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Severity score breakdown

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