What is CVE-2017-9286?

CVE-2017-9286 is a high-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-03-01.

How severe is CVE-2017-9286?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Opensuse Leap

CVE-2017-9286

The packaging of NextCloud in openSUSE used /srv/www/htdocs in an unsafe manner, which could have allowed scripts running as wwwrun user to escalate privileges to root during nextcloud package upgrade.

EPSS: 0.012 (65.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Opensuse Leap — versions 42.3
Suse Nextcloud — versions unspecified

References

security@opentext.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
security@opentext.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security@opentext.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9286?: CVE-2017-9286 is a high-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-03-01.
How severe is CVE-2017-9286?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.