High severity · published Sep 25, 2017
CVE-2017-14730
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…
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LO
Logstash · Elasticsearch
5.0.0; 5.0.1; 5.0.2; 5.1.1; 5.1.2; 5.2.0; +11 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14730
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14730
Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/628558
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5665
Third Party Advisory
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=18f97c851c209f291b31ae7a902719f1c17c79fa
Third Party Advisory
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bbd6cb398c1740c68e9b1b78340c887c58c1fbda
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