CVE-2016-3067
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
Cygwin before 2.5.0 does not properly handle updating permissions when changing users, which allows attackers to gain privileges.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cygwin | cygwin | {"endIncluding":"2.4.1-1"} | |
References
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-02/msg00023.html
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00020.html
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00054.html
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00129.html
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=205862ed08649df8f50b926a2c58c963f571b044
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-02/msg00023.html
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00020.html
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-04/msg00054.html
- https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00129.html
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=205862ed08649df8f50b926a2c58c963f571b044
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.