PT-2017-16742 · S Nail+1 · S-Nail+1

Published 2017-03-27 · Updated 2021-03-15 · CVE-2017-5899

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.0

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions S-nail versions prior to 14.8.16

Description A directory traversal issue exists in the setuid root helper binary, allowing local users to write to arbitrary files and gain root privileges by using a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.

Recommendations For versions prior to 14.8.16, update to version 14.8.16 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Race Condition

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-5899

USN-4820-1

Affected Products

S-Nail

Ubuntu

References · 18

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/47172 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/27/7 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4820-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5899 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4820-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5899 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96138 · Note
• https://mail-archive.com/s-nail-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg00551.html · Note
• https://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/commit/?id=f797c27efecad45af191c518b7f87fda32ada160 · Note
• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/27/7 · Note