Description
The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by /var/log/postgresql/.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- GENTOO
- Published
- 3/30/2011
- Last Modified
- 4/11/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
gentoo : logrotate
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