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CVE-2015-6927

Published: Sep 28, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

vzctl before 4.9.4 determines the virtual environment (VE) layout based on the presence of root.hdd/DiskDescriptor.xml in the VE private directory, which allows local simfs container (CT) root users to change the root password for arbitrary ploop containers, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on the ploop container root.hdd file and then access a control panel.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://openvz.org/Download/vzctl/4.9.4

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZL/repos/vzctl/commits/9e98ea630ac0e88b44e3e23c878a5166aeb74e1c

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