CVE-2017-10140

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DB_CONFIG in the current directory.

CVSS v3.0 7.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM

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CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.postfix.org/announcements/postfix-3.2.2.html	Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/285	Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0366	Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix::::::::

Information

Published : 2018-04-16 10:29

Updated : 2020-07-15 11:15

NVD link : CVE-2017-10140

Mitre link : CVE-2017-10140

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Products Affected

postfix

postfix

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