CVE-2017-14730

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-732

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/628558Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5665Third Party Advisory
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=18f97c851c209f291b31ae7a902719f1c17c79faThird Party Advisory
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bbd6cb398c1740c68e9b1b78340c887c58c1fbdaThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/628558Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5665Third Party Advisory
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=18f97c851c209f291b31ae7a902719f1c17c79faThird Party Advisory
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bbd6cb398c1740c68e9b1b78340c887c58c1fbdaThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Sep 25, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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