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 to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LS_USER account for creation of a hard link.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-09-25

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected products

• Logstash (Elasticsearch)

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/628558
• https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5665
• https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=18f97c851c209f291b31ae7a902719f1c17c79fa
• https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bbd6cb398c1740c68e9b1b78340c887c58c1fbda