CVE-2015-3643: USB-Creator Project USB-Creator
High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Affected products
- USB-Creator Project USB-Creator: up to and including 0.2.38.3; up to and including 0.2.56.3; up to and including 0.2.62ubuntu0.2; up to and including 0.2.67
Published 2017-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.