CVE-2011-1550

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The default configuration of logrotate on SUSE openSUSE Factory uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by directories for the (1) cobbler, (2) inn, (3) safte-monitor, and (4) uucp packages.

Affected products

gentoo Logrotate: all versions

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30

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