CVE-2017-14730

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CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p28

Published

Sep 25, 2017 (Sep 25, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LS_USER account for creation of a hard link.

Vendors: elasticsearch
Products: logstash
Weakness: CWE-732
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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