BIT-2020-7221

mysqlinstalldb in MariaDB 10.4.7 through 10.4.11 allows privilege escalation from the mysql user account to root because chown and chmod are performed unsafely, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a chmod 04755 of authpamtooldir/authpamtool. NOTE: this does not affect the Oracle MySQL product,...

GHSA-CGF8-H3FP-H956 Pleaser privilege escalation vulnerability

please aka pleaser through 0.5.4 allows privilege escalation through the TIOCSTI and/or TIOCLINUX ioctl. If both TIOCSTI and TIOCLINUX are disabled, this cannot be exploited. Here is how to see it in action: $ cd "$mktemp -d" $ git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab.com/edneville/please.git $ cd...

CVE-2023-28144

KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, allows privilege escalation because of race conditions involving symlinks and elevateperfprivileges.sh chown calls...

CVE-2023-28144

KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, are affected by a local privilege-escalation issue due to race conditions involving symlinks and elevate_perf_privileges.sh chown calls. The root cause is race conditions in file ownership changes, which can lead to eleva...

CVE-2023-28144

KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, allows privilege escalation because of race conditions involving symlinks and elevateperfprivileges.sh chown calls...

SUSE CVE-2008-0732

The init script for Apache Geronimo on SUSE Linux follows symlinks when performing a chown operation, which might allow local users to obtain access to unspecified files or directories...

SUSE CVE-2011-3180

kiwi before 4.98.08, as used in SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 before 1.2.1 and SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 before 1.2.1, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path of an overlay file, related to chown...

SUSE CVE-2013-6442

The ownerset function in smbcacls.c in smbcacls in Samba 4.0.x before 4.0.16 and 4.1.x before 4.1.6 removes an ACL during use of a --chown or --chgrp option, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging an unintended...

SUSE CVE-2015-1336

The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use...

SUSE CVE-2015-1350

The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended privilege attributes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service capability stripping via a failed invocation of a system call, as...

SUSE CVE-2015-3339

Race condition in the preparebinprm function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program at a time instant when a chown to root is in progress, and the ownership is changed but the setuid bit is not yet stripped...

SUSE CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs...

SUSE CVE-2017-18018

In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition...

SUSE CVE-2018-12029

A race condition in the nginx module in Phusion Passenger 3.x through 5.x before 5.3.2 allows local escalation of privileges when a non-standard passengerinstanceregistrydir with insufficiently strict permissions is configured. Replacing a file with a symlink after the file was created, but befor...

SUSE CVE-2021-44038

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

Hardcoded credentials

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...

CVE-2020-36657

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the uptimed user account to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call...