CVE-2014-1640 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

32%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

81%

axiom-test.sh in axiom 20100701-1.1 uses tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.

axiom-test.sh in axiom 20100701-1.1 uses tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-01-28 00:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:34:00

Affected Software

Debian axiom 20100701-1.1

20100701-1.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736358

[oss-security] 20140122 Getting tempfile/mktemp wrong

[oss-security] 20140122 Re: Getting tempfile/mktemp wrong

102383

axiom-cve20141640-symlink(90663)

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