CVE-2016-4982: Teether Authd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

authd sets weak permissions for /etc/ident.key, which allows local users to obtain the key by leveraging a race condition between the creation of the key, and the chmod to protect it.

Affected products

• Teether Authd: affected versions not specified

Published 2017-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.