PT-2017-16742

CVE-2017-5899

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Published

2017-03-27

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Updated

2021-03-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.0
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions S-nail versions prior to 14.8.16
Description A directory traversal issue exists in the setuid root helper binary, allowing local users to write to arbitrary files and gain root privileges by using a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.
Recommendations For versions prior to 14.8.16, update to version 14.8.16 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (\'Race Condition\')
CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (\'Path Traversal\')
Related identifiers
CVE-2017-5899
USN-4820-1
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