CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1336
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.
Affected configurations
• man-db project man-db (<= 2.7.6.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1336.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79723 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1482786 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1336.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79723 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1482786 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry