VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-14730

high
Published 2017-09-25 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LS_USER account for creation of a hard link.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
gentoo gentoo-not-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
elasticsearchlogstash5.0.0
elasticsearchlogstash5.0.1
elasticsearchlogstash5.0.2
elasticsearchlogstash5.1.1
elasticsearchlogstash5.1.2
elasticsearchlogstash5.2.0
elasticsearchlogstash5.2.1
elasticsearchlogstash5.3.0
elasticsearchlogstash5.3.1
elasticsearchlogstash5.3.2
elasticsearchlogstash5.4.1
elasticsearchlogstash5.4.2
elasticsearchlogstash5.4.3
elasticsearchlogstash5.5.0
elasticsearchlogstash5.5.1
elasticsearchlogstash5.5.2
elasticsearchlogstash5.6.0

References

CWEs

CWE-732

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.