CVE-2016-3067

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3067
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3067.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3067
Published
2017-04-21T20:59:00.633Z
Modified
2026-04-10T03:50:53.094916Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Cygwin before 2.5.0 does not properly handle updating permissions when changing users, which allows attackers to gain privileges.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cygwin/cygwin

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
61f181d6b872e6f37b04fed790fa903a312a3795
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.5.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
binu_ss_19990502
cygwin-2_0_0-release
cygwin-2_0_1-release
cygwin-2_0_2-release
cygwin-2_0_3-release
cygwin-2_0_4-release
cygwin-2_1_0-release
cygwin-2_2_0-release
cygwin-2_2_1-release
cygwin-2_3_0-release
cygwin-2_3_1-relase
cygwin-2_3_1-release
cygwin-2_4_0-release
cygwin-2_4_1-release
cygwin-2_5_0-release
cygwin-2_5_1-release
cygwin-2_5_2-release
cygwin-2_6_0-release
cygwin-2_6_1-release
newlib-2_3_0
newlib-2_4_0
newlib-snapshot-20150526
newlib-snapshot-20150623
newlib-snapshot-20150723
newlib-snapshot-20150824
newlib-snapshot-20150924
newlib-snapshot-20151023
newlib-snapshot-20160104
newlib-snapshot-20160226
newlib-snapshot-20160527
newlib-snapshot-20160923

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3067.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.4.1-1"
            }
        ]
    }
]