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CVE-2017-9525
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-06-09T16:29:02.110 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:28:18.113

Summary

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.

Affected products

cron_project — cron

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References

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