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.
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Froxlor before 2.3.15 Symlink Following Privilege Escalation via Traffic Cron | |
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Froxlor
Froxlor froxlor |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-59 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:froxlor:froxlor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Froxlor
Froxlor froxlor |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-20T15:40:39.663Z
Reserved: 2026-10-20T14:50:55.135Z
Link: CVE-2026-113678
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-20T16:17:12.613
Modified: 2026-10-20T16:17:12.727
Link: CVE-2026-113678
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