CVE-2016-1247

5 known exploits for CVE-2016-1247

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.

Affected products: Ubuntu, Nginx
f5 Nginx: ≤ 1.10.1

Fix: Available
CVSS 3.1: 7.8 HIGH
EPSS: 4.9% (91th percentile)
Weakness: CWE-59
NVD status: Modified
Published: 2016-11-29

CVE-2016-1247 at NVD

Authoritative description, scoring and affected products

Nginx (Debian Based Distros + Gentoo) - logrotate Local Privilege Escalation

2016-11-16 Dawid GolunskiEXPLOITPACKBash

Nginx (Debian Based Distros + Gentoo) - 'logrotate' Local Privilege Escalation

2016-11-16 Dawid GolunskiEXPLOITDBBash

Nginx (Debian-Based Distributions) - Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

2016-11-16 legalhackersZDTBash

Nginx Root Privilege Escalation

2016-11-16 Dawid GolunskiPACKETSTORMC

Nginx privilege elevation vulnerability (Debian, Ubuntu distributions)

2016-11-16 RootSEEBUGBash