Access Restriction Bypass Affecting vdukhovni/postfix package, versions [,2.3.15)[2.4.0,2.4.8)[2.5.0,2.5.4)[2.0,2.6-2008081)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.99% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VDUKHOVNIPOSTFIX-2364709
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Aug 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Aug 2008

CVE-2008-2936  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vdukhovni/postfix to version 2.3.15, 2.4.8, 2.5.4, 2.6-2008081 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending a message. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges if there is a symlink to an init script.

CVSS Base Scores

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