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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2011-1549

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 logrotate's lack of support…

MEDIUM 6.3EPSS 0.36%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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 logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by directories under /var/log/ for packages.

CVSS 2.0
6.3 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
EPSS
0.36% probability · 30th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-264
Affected
gentoo/logrotate
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.