U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities
NOTICE UPDATED - May, 29th 2024

The NVD has a new announcement page with status updates, news, and how to stay connected!

CVE-2016-1247 Detail

Description

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Hyperlink Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139750/Nginx-Debian-Based-Distros-Root-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/78 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/33 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3701 Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539796/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93903 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037104 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3114-1 Vendor Advisory 
https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nginx-Exploit-Deb-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-1247.html Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CBIZEKHBOCKO7FUMCO4X53ENMWU5OYFX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ESTIADC7BDB6VTH4JAP6C6OCW2CQ4NHP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3WOO7E5R2HT5XVOIOFPEFALILVOWZUF/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-22 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40768/ Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTswN1k1fQs Exploit  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

13 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-1247
NVD Published Date:
11/29/2016
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
Debian GNU/Linux