CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3067
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Cygwin before 2.5.0 does not properly handle updating permissions when changing users, which allows attackers to gain privileges.
Affected configurations
• cygwin cygwin (<= 2.4.1-1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-02/msg00023.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00054.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00129.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=205862ed08649df8f50b926a2c58c963f571b044 sourceware.org
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-02/msg00023.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00054.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00129.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=205862ed08649df8f50b926a2c58c963f571b044 sourceware.org