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CVE-2017-20148

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls.

Affected products

• Debian Logcheck: through 1.3.23

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/630752
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-10
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/630752
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-10

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