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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-09T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:11:01.621Z

Reserved: 2017-06-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9525

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-09T16:29:02.110

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:36:19.817

Link: CVE-2017-9525

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