CVE-2022-1348

Publication date 25 May 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A vulnerability was found in logrotate in how the state file is created. The state file is used to prevent parallel executions of multiple instances of logrotate by acquiring and releasing a file lock. When the state file does not exist, it is created with world-readable permission, allowing an unprivileged user to lock the state file, stopping any rotation. This flaw affects logrotate versions before 3.20.0.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
logrotate 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 3.20.1-1ubuntu1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.19.0-1ubuntu1.1
21.10 impish
Fixed 3.18.0-2ubuntu1.1
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

alexmurray

Only affects logrotate >= 3.17.0

mdeslaur

Ubuntu packages build with: --with-state-file-path=/var/lib/logrotate/status but the /var/lib/logrotate directory itself is 755, so a user can get a lock on the file. See follow-up pull request with additional fix

Patch details

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Package Patch details
logrotate

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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