Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-20148 - Unspecified vulnerability in Debian Logcheck 1.3.23

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
debian
critical

Summary

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Debian
2