Untrusted search path vulnerability in ProxyChains-NG before 4.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse…

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ProxyChains-NG before 4.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse libproxychains4.so library in the current working directory, which is referenced in the LD_PRELOAD path.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.49% · top 57% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-426 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-426 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• [oss-security] 20150513 Re: CVE request for proxychains-ng : current path as the first directory for the library search path (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/commit/9ab7dbeb3baff67a51d0c5e71465c453be0890b5#diff-803c5170888b8642f2a97e5e9423d399 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147013 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 74648 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/blob/v4.9/README#L56 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/issues/60 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 05:56 UTC.