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CVE-2011-1550

The default configuration of logrotate on SUSE openSUSE Factory uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root…

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By mitre

  2. Published

  3. · 13 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2011-1550, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium6.3AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References

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Sources

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