CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14730

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-09-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-25
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-732

Description

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LS_USER account for creation of a hard link.

Affected configurations

• elasticsearch logstash 5.0.0 • elasticsearch logstash 5.0.1 • elasticsearch logstash 5.0.2 • elasticsearch logstash 5.1.1 • elasticsearch logstash 5.1.2 • elasticsearch logstash 5.2.0 • elasticsearch logstash 5.2.1 • elasticsearch logstash 5.3.0 • elasticsearch logstash 5.3.1 • elasticsearch logstash 5.3.2 • elasticsearch logstash 5.4.1 • elasticsearch logstash 5.4.2 • elasticsearch logstash 5.4.3 • elasticsearch logstash 5.5.0 • elasticsearch logstash 5.5.1 • elasticsearch logstash 5.5.2 • elasticsearch logstash 5.6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References