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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-18285

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 has incorrect group ownership of the /etc/burp directory, which might allow local users to obtain read and write access to arbitrary files by leveraging access to a certain account for a burp-server.conf change.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:36 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2017-18285

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Jun 2018, 06:29 UTC

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 has incorrect group ownership of the /etc/burp directory, which might allow local users to obtain read and write access to arbitrary files by leveraging access to a certain account for a burp-server.conf change.

osv:CVE-2017-18285
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-18285",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 has incorrect group ownership of the /etc/burp directory, which might allow local users to obtain read and write access to arbitrary files by leveraging access to a certain account for a burp-server.conf change.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-18285",
    "products": [],
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.733422819Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-03",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-05",
        "https://bugs.gentoo.org/641842"
      ],
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430331,
  "published_at": "2018-06-04T06:29:00.327+00:00"
}