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CVE-2017-9525 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (cron, systemd-cron), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 9, open 1.
In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.