CVE-2017-10140 Affecting vdukhovni/postfix package, versions [,2.11.10)[3.0.0,3.0.10)[3.1.0,3.1.6)[3.2.0,3.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VDUKHOVNIPOSTFIX-2364710
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Apr 2018

CVE-2017-10140  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vdukhovni/postfix to version 2.11.10, 3.0.10, 3.1.6, 3.2.2 or higher.

Overview

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DB_CONFIG in the current directory.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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