Untrusted Search Path Affecting rofl0r/proxychains-ng package, versions [,4.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ROFL0RPROXYCHAINSNG-2366984
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Sep 2017

CVE-2015-3887  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rofl0r/proxychains-ng to version 4.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path. Untrusted search path vulnerability in ProxyChains-NG before 4.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse libproxychains4.so library in the current working directory, which is referenced in the LD_PRELOAD path.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1