CVE-2011-1548
EPSS 0.06%
Description
The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by /var/log/postgresql/.
How to fix CVE-2011-1548
To remediate CVE-2011-1548, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/logrotate—upgrade to 3.7.8-6 or later
Is CVE-2011-1548 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 3.7.8-6