{"id":"CVE-2017-9525","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-12T22:41:28.961026Z","published":"2017-06-09T16:29:02.110Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00025.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00029.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/08/3"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038651"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://bugs.debian.org/864466"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9525.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3.0pl1-128."}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}