CVE-2011-2910

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 Medium 6.7
Description
The AX.25 daemon (ax25d) in ax25-tools before 0.0.8-13 does not check the return value of a setuid call. The setuid call is responsible for dropping privileges but if the call fails the daemon would continue to run with root privileges which can allow possible privilege escalation.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2011-2910
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-11-15T17:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-11-26T15:08:52
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-269 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:linux-ax25:ax25-tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 0.0.8-13
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • HIGH
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.7
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 0.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2910 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2910 Broken Link
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2910 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2910
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2910
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:58:40 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 06:26:37 2019-11-15T17:15Z 2019-11-15T17:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 06:26:37 2019-11-26T15:08:52 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 06:26:37 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated