Link Following Affecting nginx package, versions <1.10.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-NGINX-341026
  • published29 Nov 2016
  • disclosed29 Nov 2016

Introduced: 29 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-1247  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 nginx to version 1.10.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nginx package and not the nginx package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.

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