Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in app-admin/logcheck - CVE-2017-20148
Published: September 26, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU67638
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-20148
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure recursive chown calls in the ebuild package Logcheck on Gentoo. A local user can execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Affected software
app-admin/logcheck
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2017-20148
Install updates from vendor's website.
app-admin/logcheck - update to 1.3.23