{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2011-02-16T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "logwatch: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names",
    "id" : "680237",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680237"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "7.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-73->CWE-78",
  "details" : [ "logwatch.pl in Logwatch 7.3.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a log file name, as demonstrated via a crafted username to a Samba server." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-03-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0324",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "logwatch-0:7.3-9.el5_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-03-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0324",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "logwatch-0:7.3.6-49.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "logwatch",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1018\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1018" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-1018",
  "csaw" : false
}