CVE-2017-18285

Publication date 4 June 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 has incorrect group ownership of the /etc/burp directory, which might allow local users to obtain read and write access to arbitrary files by leveraging access to a certain account for a burp-server.conf change.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
burp	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

msalvatore

/etc/burp is owned by root:root with permissions 0755 This CVE is gentoo specific

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N