CVE-2011-1548: Gentoo Logrotate

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of logrotate on Debian GNU/Linux uses root privileges to process files in directories that permit non-root write access, which allows local users to conduct symlink and hard link attacks by leveraging logrotate's lack of support for untrusted directories, as demonstrated by /var/log/postgresql/.

Affected products

• Gentoo Logrotate: any version

Published 2011-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.