CVE-2016-3992 - Improper Access Control

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-07-26 17:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Cronic Project Cronic 2

2

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:1741

Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20160410 CVE request: cronic - predictable temporary files

[oss-security] 20160410 Re: CVE request: cronic - predictable temporary files

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331

Third Party Advisory

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