Vulnerability database
Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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Jan 26, 2023man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but noCVE-2018-25078 · Other software · Man-db Project · reported by MITREHigh 7.8
man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)
- Product
- Man-db
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordbugs.gentoo.orgsecurity.gentoo.org
Sep 27, 2017The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges viaCVE-2015-1336 · Other software · Man-db Project · reported by security@ubuntu.comHigh 7.8
The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.
- Product
- Man-db
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordpacketstormsecurity.compeople.canonical.com
Apr 10, 2007Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.CVE-2006-4250 · Other software · Debian · reported by security@debian.orgMedium 4.6
Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.
- Product
- Debian Linux
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordsecunia.comsecunia.com
Aug 27, 2003man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the ~/.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local useCVE-2003-0645 · Other software · Andries Brouwer · reported by MITREMedium 4.6
man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the ~/.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges.
- Product
- MAN
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Aug 27, 2003Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MCVE-2003-0620 · Other software · Andries Brouwer · reported by MITREMedium 4.6
Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments to add_to_dirlist in manp.c, (2) a long pathname to ult_src in ult_src.c, (3) a long .so argument to test_for_include in ult_src.c, (4) a long MANPATH environment variable, or (5) a long PATH environment variable.
- Product
- MAN
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
May 3, 2001mandb in the man-db package before 2.3.16-3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via the command line options (1) -u or (2) -c, which do not drop priCVE-2001-1331 · Other software · Debian · reported by MITRELow 1.2
mandb in the man-db package before 2.3.16-3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via the command line options (1) -u or (2) -c, which do not drop privileges and follow symlinks.
- Product
- Debian Linux
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordonline.securityfocus.comdebian.org
Jun 12, 1999The zsoelim program in the Debian man-db package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.CVE-1999-0730 · Other software · Debian · reported by MITREHigh 10
The zsoelim program in the Debian man-db package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.
- Product
- Debian Linux
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordexchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comexchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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