CVE-2011-1549
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (30th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1550)
- Published
- March 30, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1550 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gentoo / linux
- gentoo / logrotate
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/16
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/17
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/18
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/19
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/22
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/24
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/25
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/26
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/27
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/28
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/29
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/30
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/31
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/32
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/33
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/8
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/06/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/11
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/2
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/10/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/26
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47170
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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