VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2011-1549
CVSS score6.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-03-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
Description
The default configuration of logrotate on Gentoo Linux 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 under /var/log/ for packages.