CVE-2015-3887
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| proxychains-ng_project | proxychains-ng | {"endIncluding":"4.8.1"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/13/11
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74648
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147013
- https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/blob/v4.9/README#L56
- https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/commit/9ab7dbeb3baff67a51d0c5e71465c453be0890b5#diff-803c5170888b8642f2a97e5e9423d399
- https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/issues/60
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/13/11
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74648
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147013
- https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/blob/v4.9/README#L56
- https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/commit/9ab7dbeb3baff67a51d0c5e71465c453be0890b5#diff-803c5170888b8642f2a97e5e9423d399
- https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/issues/60
CWEs
CWE-426
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.