Description

man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)

Related CPE's

a

man-db_project

man-db

Vulnerable

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/662438

ExploitVendor Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-08

Weaknesses

[email protected]

Primary
NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.8 · High

  • CVSS V3.1

  • CVSS V3.0

  • CVSS V2.0

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Modified

Published

2023-01-26T21:15:16.080

2 years ago

Last modified

2023-10-08T09:15:10.143

1 year ago