CVE-2013-2029 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

63%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

153%

Per: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html "Affected Products: Red Hat OpenStack 3.0"

nagios.upgrade_to_v3.sh, as distributed by Red Hat and possibly others for Nagios Core 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary nagioscfg file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Per: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html "Affected Products: Red Hat OpenStack 3.0"

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-11-23 17:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-11-25 16:17:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Open Stack 3.0

3.0

References

RHSA-2013:1526

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958015

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