Access Restriction Bypass Affecting commons-daemon package, versions <1.0.7-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-COMMONSDAEMON-283074
  • published15 Aug 2011
  • disclosed15 Aug 2011

Introduced: 15 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-2729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable commons-daemon to version 1.0.7-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for files via a request to an application.

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