Security advisory

{
  "id": "2358e76efc29637b3e39512afdc834c6ec9db1f0c021404032936b28c2f4acc0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15945",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-15945",
    "summary": "The installation scripts in the Gentoo dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera packages before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysql account for creation of a link.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-15945",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-15945",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-15945"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mariadb/server",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "656d0f10e51a554ec2ff895c5e25e16a5da0d00e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "10.0.30"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.29",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.28",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.27",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.26",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.25",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.24",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.23",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.22",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.21",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.20",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.19",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.17",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.16",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.15",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.14",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.13",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.12",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.11",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.10",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.7a",
            "mariadb-galera-10.0.7"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15945.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:45.334626173Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.gentoo.org/630822",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-04"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "mariadb:mariadb",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "10.0.30"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:*:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "mysql:mysql",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "5.6.36"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-15945",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436107,
  "published_at": "2017-10-27T21:29:00.31+00:00"
}