CVE-2017-15945

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The installation scripts in the Gentoo dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera packages before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysql account for creation of a 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/630822Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-04Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/630822Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-04Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 27, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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