Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1255

Title: Debian Postgresql-Common

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1255.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Dec 05, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1255: The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common package in Debian wheezy before 134wheezy5, in Debian jessie before 165+deb8u2, in Debian unstable before 178, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS before 129ubuntu1.2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 154ubuntu1.1, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 173ubuntu0.1, in Ubuntu 17.04 before 179ubuntu0.1, and in Ubuntu 17.10 before 184ubuntu1.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a logfile in /var/log/postgresql.

Impacted Vendors

debian 1

postgresql 1

Reference Links

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-2 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-postgresql/postgresql-common.git/commit/?id=c8989206ec360f199400c74f129f7b4cb878c1ee https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/01/msg00002.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-2 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-postgresql/postgresql-common.git/commit/?id=c8989206ec360f199400c74f129f7b4cb878c1ee https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/01/msg00002.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns