CVE-2026-113678
criticalFroxlor before 2.3.15 contains a symlink following vulnerability in Statistics::makeChownWithNewStats that allows authenticated customers to take ownership of…
Froxlor before 2.3.15 contains a symlink following vulnerability in Statistics::makeChownWithNewStats that allows authenticated customers to take ownership of arbitrary host directories by abusing the root-run traffic cron. Attackers can replace the goaccess statistics directory in their document root with a symlink, causing chown -R to hand root-owned trees to them and enabling root escalation.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/blob/2.3.14/lib/Froxlor/Http/Statistics.php#L144-L162 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/commit/0805a7e16a223d528b51d8cacfaff54217b9d8f8 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/releases/tag/2.3.15 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/security/advisories/GHSA-vwjv-x8ff-4cvv disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/froxlor-before-2.3.15-symlink-following-privilege-esc... disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/security/advisories/GHSA-vwjv-x8ff-4cvv 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0