CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-3887

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in ProxyChains-NG before version 4.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious libproxychains4.so library in the current working directory, which is referenced in the LD_PRELOAD path.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to unauthorized access and privilege escalation by local users, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update ProxyChains-NG to version 4.9 or later and to restrict access to working directories to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ProxyChains-NG before 4.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse libproxychains4.so library in the current working directory, which is referenced in the LD_PRELOAD path.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS