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CVE-2015-1336 json

The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account t…

published 2017-09-27 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-1476

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.

Patch / fix

  • man-db Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.7.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1336

  • man-db Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.7.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1336

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1336 updated cvss 4.4

man-db: TOCTOU bug when processing catman pages

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 man-db
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-41158)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-41158 Man-db 2.6.7.1 - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2015-12-02
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • halfdog.net http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.