cve/2017/CVE-2017-14730.md

### [CVE-2017-14730](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14730)
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### Description

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LS_USER account for creation of a hard link.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5665

#### Github
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