CVE-2018-25078: Man-DB Project Man-DB

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)

Affected products

Published 2023-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.