High
Security advisory
Nylas Mail Lives 2.2.2 uses 0755 permissions for $HOME/.nylas-mail, which allows local users to obtain sensitive authentication information via standard filesystem operations.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000485
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Nylas Mail Lives 2.2.2 uses 0755 permissions for $HOME/.nylas-mail, which allows local users to obtain sensitive authentication information via standard filesystem operations.
osv:CVE-2017-1000485
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:33.723205236Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-01-03T20:29:00.61+00:00"
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