CVE-2008-5153 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

spell-check-logic.cgi in Moodle 1.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/spell-check-debug.log, (2) /tmp/spell-check-before, or (3) /tmp/spell-check-after temporary file.

spell-check-logic.cgi in Moodle 1.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/spell-check-debug.log, (2) /tmp/spell-check-before, or (3) /tmp/spell-check-after temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-11-18 16:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:33:00

Affected Software

Moodle 1.8.2

1.8.2

References

[debian-devel] 20080813 Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

33955

http://uvw.ru/report.sid.txt

Exploit

DSA-1724

32402

moodle-spellchecklogic-symlink(46708)

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