CVE-2011-1549

Description

The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotates lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by directories under /var/log/ for packages.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.1

MODERATE

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.061

Associated Vulnerability

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Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234