CVE-2014-1838 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

OpenSUSE

First reported 10 years ago

2014-03-11 19:37:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

OpenSUSE 12.3

12.3

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

References

[oss-security] 20140131 CVE request: temp file issues in python's logilab-common module

openSUSE-SU-2014:0306

57209

http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051

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