VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-9232

critical
Published 2017-05-28 · Modified 2026-03-03
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Juju uses a UNIX domain socket without setting appropriate permissions in github.com/juju/juju

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/local/juju_run_agent_priv_esc rank 600
Juju-run Agent Privilege Escalation
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gogithub.com/juju/juju<0.0.0-20170524231039-0417178a3c280.0.0-20170524231039-0417178a3c28

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ubuntu canonicaljuju{"endIncluding":"1.25.12"}
ubuntu canonicaljuju2.0.0
ubuntu canonicaljuju2.0.1
ubuntu canonicaljuju2.0.2
ubuntu canonicaljuju2.0.3
ubuntu canonicaljuju2.1.0
ubuntu canonicaljuju2.1.1
ubuntu canonicaljuju2.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-862

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

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