CVE-2017-9525
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9525
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9525.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-9525
- Downstream
- Published
- 2017-06-09T16:29:02Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.
- References