CVE-2017-9525

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 9, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jun 9, 2017

Description

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://bugs.debian.org/864466
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/08/3
1038651vdb-entry
[debian-lts-announce] 20190321 [SECURITY] [DLA 1723-1] cron security updatemailing-list
[debian-lts-announce] 20211030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2801-1] cron security updatemailing-list

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