CVE-2015-1038 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

p7zip 9.20.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

p7zip 9.20.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2015-01-21 18:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-08 01:29:00

Affected Software

Fedora 22

22

Fedora Project Fedora 23

23

Oracle Solaris 11.2

11.2

7-Zip p7zip 9.20.1

9.20.1

References

FEDORA-2015-fadaa9953e

Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2015-d5cc306730

Third Party Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2015:1162

DSA-3289

[oss-security] 20150111 Re: CVE request for directory traversal flaw in p7zip

Third Party Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

Third Party Advisory

71890

Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774660

Exploit, Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179505

Exploit, Issue Tracking

p7zip-cve20151038-symlink(99970)

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