| CVE-2017-9525 | Date: (C)2017-06-13 (M)2023-12-22 |
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.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -| CVSS V3 Severity: | CVSS V2 Severity: |
| CVSS Score : 6.7 | CVSS Score : 6.9 |
| Exploit Score: 0.8 | Exploit Score: 3.4 |
| Impact Score: 5.9 | Impact Score: 10.0 |
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| CVSS V3 Metrics: | CVSS V2 Metrics: |
| Attack Vector: LOCAL | Access Vector: LOCAL |
| Attack Complexity: LOW | Access Complexity: MEDIUM |
| Privileges Required: HIGH | Authentication: NONE |
| User Interaction: NONE | Confidentiality: COMPLETE |
| Scope: UNCHANGED | Integrity: COMPLETE |
| Confidentiality: HIGH | Availability: COMPLETE |
| Integrity: HIGH | |
| Availability: HIGH | |
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