{"id":"CVE-2026-113678","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-113678","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:51:01.576Z","title":"Froxlor before 2.3.15 contains a symlink following vulnerability in Statistics::makeChownWithNewStats that allows authenticated customers to take ownership of arbitrary host directories by abusing the root-run traffic cron.","description":"Froxlor before 2.3.15 contains a symlink following vulnerability in Statistics::makeChownWithNewStats that allows authenticated customers to take ownership of arbitrary host directories by abusing the root-run traffic cron. Attackers can replace the goaccess statistics directory in their document root with a symlink, causing chown -R to hand root-owned trees to them and enabling root escalation.","published":"2026-10-20T16:17:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-23T02:16:57.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":9.4,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00632,"percentile":0.49991,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-21","score":0.00446,"percentile":0.3772}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.63%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-20T16:17:13.000Z","detail":{"score":"9.4","severity":"CRITICAL","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T16:17:12.613Z"},"summary":"New CVE, critical severity (CVSS 9.4)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/blob/2.3.14/lib/Froxlor/Http/Statistics.php#L144-L162","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/commit/0805a7e16a223d528b51d8cacfaff54217b9d8f8","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/releases/tag/2.3.15","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/security/advisories/GHSA-vwjv-x8ff-4cvv","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/froxlor-before-2.3.15-symlink-following-privilege-escalation-via-traffic-cron","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/security/advisories/GHSA-vwjv-x8ff-4cvv","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-113678","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."}