Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-9525
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 15.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.7
CVSS v2 Score 6.9
Products affected by CVE-2017-9525
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cpe:2.3:a:cron_project:cron:3.0pl1-128.
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04.2
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04.3
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04.4
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04.2
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04.3
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04.4
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04.5
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04.2
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04.3
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04.4
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04.5
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04.6
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.2
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.3
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.4
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.5
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04.6
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04.2
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04.3
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04.4
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04.5
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04.6
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06.2
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04.2
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04.3
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04.4
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:-
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:0.9.1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:0.9.2
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:0.9.3
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:0.9.4
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:0.93
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:1.1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:1.2
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:1.3
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:13.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.0.34
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.0.5
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.1.8.8.p3-1.1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.2
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.3
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.5.2-1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.5.3-16
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.5.3-3
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0.18
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0.23
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.2.4
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0.9
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0.14
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.2
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.1
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.2