7.7 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)
bugs.gentoo.org/662438
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-08