CVE-2018-25078

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-25078
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-25078.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-25078
Published
2023-01-26T21:15:16.080Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:29:17.819181Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-25078.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "2.8.5"
            }
        ]
    }
]