CVE-2016-1247

Published: 25 October 2016

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.

Notes

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS never got the update for CVE-2013-0337 which
introduced this issue.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1247
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3114-1
• http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nginx-Exploit-Deb-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-1247.html
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian