{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6252 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2016-6252 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-6252 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-6252 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6252 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-6252/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-6252/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-6252","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-6252/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-6252","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6252","GHSA-8rg4-9fq3-cf7g","SUSE-SU-2018:1995-1","SUSE-SU-2018:1997-1","SUSE-SU-2018:1997-2","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6252"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux shadow utilities","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit an integer overflow in newuidmap to gain elevated privileges on Linux systems using shadow 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n/a","id":"CVE-2019-19882","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-12-18"},{"cvss_score":5.3,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-7169","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-02-15"},{"cvss_score":3.3,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-29383","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-14"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"SUSE","prefix":"SUSE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can exploit an integer overflow in newuidmap to gain elevated privileges on Linux 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