{"id":"CVE-2011-0343","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-0343","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:57:58.503Z","title":"Balabit syslog-ng 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 OSE and PE, when running on FreeBSD or HP-UX, does not properly perform cast operations, which causes syslog-ng to use a default value of -1 to create log files with insecure permissions (07777), which allows local…","description":"Balabit syslog-ng 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 OSE and PE, when running on FreeBSD or HP-UX, does not properly perform cast operations, which causes syslog-ng to use a default value of -1 to create log files with insecure permissions (07777), which allows local users to read and write to these log files.","published":"2011-01-28T16:00:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:27:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["oneidentity/syslog-ng"],"epss":{"score":0.00377,"percentile":0.31453,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608491","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515955/100/0/threaded","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45988","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608491","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515955/100/0/threaded","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45988","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0343","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}