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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:logrotate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
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