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CVE

CVE-2017-9772

Local privilege escalation issue with ocaml binaries
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CVE

CVE-2017-9772

Local privilege escalation issue with ocaml binaries

Description

Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions 4.04.0 and 4.04.1 allows external code to be executed with raised privilege in binaries marked as setuid, by setting the CAMLCPLUGINS, CAMLNATIVECPLUGINS, or CAMLBYTE_CPLUGINS environment variable.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.8
-
3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
9.8
-
3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/7557

Severity

9.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
9.8
EPSS Probability
0.0664%
EPSS Percentile
0.91005%
Introduced Version
4.04,507507829e9639374ede5a2dade1bb6d6b98ad49
Fix Available
4.04.2,850021c200c7507f2a928a66fa1291ff4ae3a622

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