CVE-2015-3887 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting ProxyChains-NG versions prior to 4.9. This flaw allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation by placing a malicious libproxychains4.so library in the current working directory, which is then loaded via the LD_PRELOAD path. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability has low attack complexity and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:proxychains-ng_project:proxychains-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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