Privilege Escalation via Ownership Misconfiguration in SUSE openSUSE Factory

CVE-2011-1551 · MEDIUM Severity

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

SUSE openSUSE Factory assigns ownership of the /var/log/cobbler/ directory tree to the web-service user account, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this account during root filesystem operations by the Cobbler daemon.

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