CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-0727
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- 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-264
Description
The crontab script in the ntp package before 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, on Ubuntu Wily, and before 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the ntp account to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving statistics directory cleanup.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141913/NTP-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81552 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034808 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1528050 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382369 Issue Tracking
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141913/NTP-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81552 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034808 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1528050 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382369 Issue Tracking