CVE-2017-10140

Publication date 14 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DB_CONFIG in the current directory.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
db	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
db4.8	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
db5.3	19.04 disco	Fixed 5.3.28-13.1
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 5.3.28-13.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 5.3.28-13.1
	17.10 artful	Fixed 5.3.28-13.1
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 5.3.28-12ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 5.3.28-11ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.3.28-3ubuntu3.1
db6.0	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

see oss-sec for pam_ccreds example

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
db5.3	Vendor: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libdb/raw/8047fa8580659fcae740c25e91b490539b8453eb/f/db-5.3.28-cwd-db_config.patch
db6.0	Upstream: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/866783/

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3489-1
Berkeley DB vulnerability
21 November 2017

USN-3489-2
Berkeley DB vulnerability
21 November 2017