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Link Following Affecting nginx package, versions <1.10.2-1

Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-NGINX-341026
  • published 29 Nov 2016
  • disclosed 29 Nov 2016
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Introduced: 29 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-1247 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-59 Open this link 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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.8 high
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Red Hat

7.4 high