Vulnerability: Privilege Escalation via Logrotate's Default Configuration on Debian GNU/Linux

CVE-2011-1548 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by /var/log/postgresql/.

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