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CVE-2018-25078

7.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.8) in man-db project man-db. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.)

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-250
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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