CVE-2026-35368 uutils coreutils chroot Local Privilege Escalation and chroot Escape in via Name Service Switch (NSS) Injection

A vulnerability exists in the chroot utility of uutils coreutils when using the --userspec option. The utility resolves the user specification via getpwnam after entering the chroot but before dropping root privileges. On glibc-based systems, this can trigger the Name Service Switch NSS to load...

CVE-2026-24466

Products provided by Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. and its OEM products Ricoh Co., Ltd., Murata Machinery, Ltd. register Windows services with unquoted file paths. A user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privilege...

CVE-2020-9024

Iteris Vantage Velocity Field Unit 2.3.1 and 2.4.2 devices have world-writable permissions for the /root/cleardata.pl executed as root by crond and /root/loadperl.sh executed as root at boot time scripts...

CLI: world-writable root directory

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network JON before 3.0.1 uses 0777 permissions for the root directory when installing a remote client, which allows local users to read or modify subdirectories and files within the root directory, as demonstrated by obtaining JON credentials...

CVE-1999-1365

Windows NT searches a user's home directory %systemroot% by default before other directories to find critical programs such as NDDEAGNT.EXE, EXPLORER.EXE, USERINIT.EXE or TASKMGR.EXE, which could allow local users to bypass access restrictions or gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse program...

mformat privilege escalation

It's possible to access any file for reading and create world-writable root-owned files...

Anonymous FTP Writable root Directory

It is possible to write on the root directory of the remote anonymous FTP server. This allows an attacker to upload arbitrary files which can be used in other attacks, or to turn the FTP server into a software distribution point. TRUSTED...

PT-1999-1179 · Undefined · Undefined

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: No specific software or versions are mentioned. Description: The issue concerns inappropriate permissions for system-critical data in an anonymous FTP account. This includes the root directory being writeable by anyone, the ability to obtain ...