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CVE-2017-5188
OBS worker VM escape via relative symbolic links
Medium5.0EPSS 1.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microfocus
Description
The bs_worker code in open build service before 20170320 followed relative symlinks, allowing reading of files outside of the package source directory during build, allowing leakage of private information.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microfocusCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 33% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- Missing checking for symlinks could use as a path traversal to read files outside of a specific directory.
- CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-59 and its CVEs
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 20170320
References (3)
- https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/commit/ba27c91351878bc297ec4baba0bd488a2f3b568d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029824 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2017-5188/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- 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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