{"id":"CVE-2007-6249","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2007-6249","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:40:11.030Z","title":"etc-update in Portage before 2.1.3.11 on Gentoo Linux relies on the umask to set permissions for the merge file, often resulting in permissions weaker than those of the original files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by…","description":"etc-update in Portage before 2.1.3.11 on Gentoo Linux relies on the umask to set permissions for the merge file, often resulting in permissions weaker than those of the original files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the merge file.","published":"2007-12-15T01:46:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:47:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.1,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":["gentoo/portage"],"epss":{"score":0.00434,"percentile":0.37462,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193589","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/42636","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/28094","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?rev=7799&view=rev","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-11.xml","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26864","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019097","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39035","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193589","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/42636","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/28094","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?rev=7799&view=rev","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-11.xml","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26864","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019097","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39035","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6249","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}