CVE-2017-15945 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can escalate privileges by exploiting insecure chown calls in Gentoo database installation scripts via symlink attacks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-15945?
CVE-2017-15945 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mariadb Mariadb, published on 27 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The installation scripts in the Gentoo dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera packages before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysql account for creation of a link.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15945?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Mariadb Mariadb, Mysql Mysql.
How do I fix CVE-2017-15945?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-15945 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-15945 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15945 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-6xg2-c83r-cgwr.