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CVE-2011-1548

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1548 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the default configuration of logrotate on Debian and Gentoo Linux. It allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by exploiting logrotate's processing of files in non-root writable directories with root privileges, as seen in /var/log/postgresql/. With a CVSS score of 6.3, this vulnerability has medium attack complexity and can lead to complete integrity and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
9.2
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 52nd 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
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11
securityfocus.com / bid/47167