mysql: unrestricted mysqld_safe's ledir (CPU Jan 2017)

It was discovered that the mysqldsafe script honored the ledir option value set in a MySQL configuration file. A user able to modify one of the MySQL configuration files could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...

mysql: insecure error log file handling in mysqld_safe, incomplete CVE-2016-6664 fix (CPU Jan 2017)

Multiple flaws were found in the way the mysqldsafe script handled creation of error log file. The mysql operating system user could use these flaws to escalate their privileges to root...

CVE-2017-6746

A vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Web Security Appliance WSA could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection and elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. Affected Products: Cisco AsyncOS Software 10...

CVE-2017-4918

VMware Horizon View Client 2.x, 3.x and 4.x prior to 4.5.0 contains a command injection vulnerability in the service startup script. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root on the Mac OSX system where the client is installed...

PT-2017-18797 · Canonical · Juju +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Juju versions prior to 1.25.12 Juju versions 2.0.x prior to 2.0.4 Juju versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.3 Description: The issue allows for privilege escalation by users on the system to root due to the use of a UNIX domain socket without...

CVE-2017-6623

A vulnerability in a script file that is installed as part of the Cisco Policy Suite CPS Software distribution for the CPS appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate their privilege level to root. The vulnerability is due to incorrect sudoers permissions on the script file...

[ASA-201705-11] smb4k: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201705-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2017-05-10 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-8849 Package : smb4k Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-268 Summary ======= The package smb4k before version...

[ASA-201705-12] kauth: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201705-12 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2017-05-10 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-8422 Package : kauth Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-269 Summary ======= The package kauth before version...

PT-2017-2109 · Mock · Mock

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: mock affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to the scm plug-in in mock, which may allow attackers to bypass the intended chroot protection mechanism and gain root privileges via a crafted spec file. This is due to...

LightDM Directory Traversal Vulnerability

LightDM is a set of desktop display managers for Linux desktops. A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the debian/guest-account.sh file in LightDM 1.22.0 and earlier versions. A local attacker can use this vulnerability to obtain the location of an arbitrary directory path and elevate...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7358

In LightDM through 1.22.0, a directory traversal issue in debian/guest-account.sh allows local attackers to own arbitrary directory path locations and escalate privileges to root when the guest user logs out...

glusterfs: glusterfs-server %pretrans rpm script temporary file issue

It was found that glusterfs-server RPM package would write file with predictable name into world readable /tmp directory. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root by modifying the shell script during the installation of the glusterfs-server package...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0358

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation...

CVE-2016-10156

A flaw in systemd v228 in /src/basic/fs-util.c caused world writable suid files to be created when using the systemd timers features, allowing local attackers to escalate their privileges to root. This is fixed in v229...

Vesta Control Panel 0.9.8-16 - Local Privilege Escalation

!/bin/bash Exploit Title: Vesta Control Panel 0.9.7 suid.c PWN Make PWN shell script executable. chmod +x PWN Inject command to...

mysql: general_log can write to configuration files, leading to privilege escalation (CPU Oct 2016)

It was discovered that the MySQL logging functionality allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly use this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the system running the database server...

Barracuda Web App Firewall 8.0.1.008/Load Balancer 5.4.0.004 - Authenticated Remote Root Exploit (Me

Exploit for linux platform in category remote exploits Exploit Title: Barracuda Web App Firewall/Load Balancer Post Auth Remote Root Exploit 3 Date: 07/28/16 Exploit Author: xort email protected Vendor Homepage: https://www.barracuda.com/ Software Link:...

Barracuda Web App Firewall 8.0.1.007/Load Balancer 5.4.0.004 - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

Exploit for linux platform in category remote exploits Exploit Title: Barracuda Web App Firewall/Load Balancer Post Auth Remote Root Exploit Date: 07/21/16 Exploit Author: xort email protected Vendor Homepage: https://www.barracuda.com/ Software Link: https://www.barracuda.com/products/loadbalanc...

USN-2933-1 exim4 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Exim incorrectly filtered environment variables when used with the perlstartup configuration option. If the perlstartup option was enabled, a local attacker could use this issue to escalate their privileges to the root user. This issue has been fixed by having Exim clean th...

libuser: multiple issues

CVE-2015-3245 denial of service It was found that libuser, as used by the chfn userhelper functionality, did not properly filter out newline characters in GECOS fields. A local, authenticated user could use this flaw to corrupt the /etc/passwd file, resulting in a denial-of-service on the system...