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 Metrics
- 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 Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- ELASTICSEARCH
- Published
- 9/25/2017
- Last Modified
- 4/20/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
elasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstashelasticsearch : logstash
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