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CVE-2011-1549

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1549 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux. It allows local users to perform symlink and hard link attacks due to logrotate processing files with root privileges in directories writable by non-root users, specifically under /var/log/. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.3 (medium severity) with a local attack vector, medium attack complexity, and high impact on integrity and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 43rd 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

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/47170