CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-6927
3.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
vzctl before 4.9.4 determines the virtual environment (VE) layout based on the presence of root.hdd/DiskDescriptor.xml in the VE private directory, which allows local simfs container (CT) root users to change the root password for arbitrary ploop containers, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on the ploop container root.hdd file and then access a control panel.
Affected configurations
• openvz vzctl (<= 4.9.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3357 www.debian.org
- https://openvz.org/Download/vzctl/4.9.4 Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-30 security.gentoo.org
- https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZL/repos/vzctl/commits/9e98ea630ac0e88b44e3e23c878a5166aeb74e1c Exploit
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3357 www.debian.org
- https://openvz.org/Download/vzctl/4.9.4 Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-30 security.gentoo.org
- https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZL/repos/vzctl/commits/9e98ea630ac0e88b44e3e23c878a5166aeb74e1c Exploit