CVE-2017-9525 (GCVE-0-2017-9525)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-09 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:11
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Summary
In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.
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