7.8 - CVE-2018-25078

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2018-25078	First vendor Publication	2023-01-26
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2025-04-02

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score	7.8
Base Score	7.8	Environmental Score	7.8
impact SubScore	5.9	Temporal Score	7.8
Exploitabality Sub Score	1.8

Attack Vector	Local	Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low	User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High	Availability Impact	High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

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.)

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-25078

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Man-Db Project Man-Db cpe:2.3:a:man-db_project:man-db:2.7.6.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:man-db_project:man-db::::::::	2

Sources (Detail)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/662438
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-08

Source	Url

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Date	Informations
2025-05-27 01:11:46	Multiple Updates
2024-11-28 13:18:06	Multiple Updates
2023-10-08 13:27:49	Multiple Updates
2023-02-02 21:27:22	Multiple Updates
2023-01-27 17:27:18	Multiple Updates
2023-01-27 00:27:15	First insertion