KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITY DOSSIER
CVE-2015-3246
Red Hat · Libuser
Red Hat libuser contains a race condition vulnerability that allows authenticated local users to corrupt the /etc/passwd file to cause a denial of service or privilege escalation.
Correlated Federal Court Cases & Exploitation Context (0)
No federal court indictment in the current archive directly cites CVE-2015-3246. This record tracks its addition to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 2026-08-26.
Associated Government Advisories
Tracked under CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Binding Operational Directive 22-01 for federal civilian agency remediation.