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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-15131

CVE-2017-15131

Description

It was found that system umask policy is not being honored when creating XDG user directories, since Xsession sources xdg-user-dirs.sh before setting umask policy. This only affects xdg-user-dirs before 0.15.5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Affected products

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  • Red Hat/xdg-user-dirsllm-fuzzy
    Range: <0.15.5
  • Red Hat, Inc./RHEL shipped xdg-user-dirs and gnome-sessionv5
    Range: before 0.15-5

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