CVE-2015-1336

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.0%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDSep 27

1st PoCDec 2

exploitation probability

1.0%top 39% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/41158 cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1336.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1482786 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/11 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79723