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CVE-2011-0343

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0343 describes a vulnerability in Balabit syslog-ng versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 OSE/PE when operating on FreeBSD or HP-UX. Due to improper cast operations, syslog-ng defaults to creating log files with insecure 07777 permissions, enabling local users to read and write to these files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with local access, medium attack complexity, and complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:2.0:*:*:*:open_source:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:2.0:*:*:*:premium:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:3.0:*:*:*:open_source:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:3.0:*:*:*:premium:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:3.1:*:*:*:open_source:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.balabit.com / pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.balabit.com / pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/515955/100/0/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/45988
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry