CVE-2013-2217 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

cache.py in Suds 0.4, when tempdir is set to None, allows local users to redirect SOAP queries and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on a cache file with a predictable name in /tmp/suds/.

cache.py in Suds 0.4, when tempdir is set to None, allows local users to redirect SOAP queries and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on a cache file with a predictable name in /tmp/suds/.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-09-23 20:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

Jeff Ortel Suds 0.4

0.4

OpenSUSE 12.2

12.2

OpenSUSE 12.3

12.3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

References

openSUSE-SU-2013:1208

[oss-security] 20130628 Re: CVE Request -- python-suds: Insecure temporary directory use when initializing file-based URL cache

USN-2008-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978696

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