Vulnerabilities (CVE)

Filtered by CWE-59
Total 1363 CVE
CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v2 CVSS v3
CVE-2015-7758 2 Gummi Project, Opensuse 3 Gummi, Leap, Opensuse 2025-04-12 2.1 LOW 3.3 LOW
Gummi 0.6.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary dot file that uses the name of an existing file and a (1) .aux, (2) .log, (3) .out, (4) .pdf, or (5) .toc extension for the file name, as demonstrated by .thesis.tex.aux.
CVE-2014-3422 2 Gnu, Mageia Project 2 Emacs, Mageia 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW N/A
lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file under /tmp/esrc/.
CVE-2014-3982 1 Cisofy 1 Lynis 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW N/A
include/tests_webservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 on AIX allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis.##### file.
CVE-2015-1038 3 7-zip, Fedoraproject, Oracle 3 P7zip, Fedora, Solaris 2025-04-12 5.8 MEDIUM N/A
p7zip 9.20.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.
CVE-2015-5273 1 Redhat 5 Automatic Bug Reporting Tool, Enterprise Linux Desktop, Enterprise Linux Hpc Node and 2 more 2025-04-12 3.6 LOW N/A
The abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unpacked.cpio in a pre-created directory with a predictable name in /var/tmp.
CVE-2014-5045 2 Linux, Redhat 4 Linux Kernel, Enterprise Linux Eus, Enterprise Linux Server Aus and 1 more 2025-04-12 6.2 MEDIUM N/A
The mountpoint_last function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 does not properly maintain a certain reference count during attempts to use the umount system call in conjunction with a symlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via the umount program.
CVE-2014-4703 1 Nagios 1 Nagios 2025-04-12 2.1 LOW N/A
lib/parse_ini.c in Nagios Plugins 2.0.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on the configuration file in the extra-opts flag. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4701.
CVE-2014-5260 1 Xml-dt Project 1 Xml-dt 2025-04-12 6.3 MEDIUM N/A
The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_##### temporary file.
CVE-2013-2105 1 Jonathan Leung 1 Show In Browser 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW N/A
The Show In Browser (show_in_browser) gem 0.0.3 for Ruby allows local users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a symlink attack on /tmp/browser.html.
CVE-2016-9566 1 Nagios 1 Nagios 2025-04-12 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.
CVE-2015-3627 1 Docker 2 Docker, Libcontainer 2025-04-12 7.2 HIGH N/A
Libcontainer and Docker Engine before 1.6.1 opens the file-descriptor passed to the pid-1 process before performing the chroot, which allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack in an image.
CVE-2014-4372 1 Apple 2 Iphone Os, Tvos 2025-04-12 3.6 LOW N/A
syslogd in the syslog subsystem in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file.
CVE-2013-7393 1 Apache 1 Subversion 2025-04-12 2.4 LOW N/A
The daemonize.py module in Subversion 1.8.0 before 1.8.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on the pid file created for (1) svnwcsub.py or (2) irkerbridge.py when the --pidfile option is used. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2013-4262 based on different affected versions (ADT3).
CVE-2014-3423 2 Gnu, Mageia Project 2 Emacs, Mageia 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW N/A
lisp/net/browse-url.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/Mosaic.##### temporary file.
CVE-2014-3486 1 Redhat 1 Cloudforms 3.0 Management Engine 2025-04-12 6.9 MEDIUM N/A
The (1) shell_exec function in lib/util/MiqSshUtilV1.rb and (2) temp_cmd_file function in lib/util/MiqSshUtilV2.rb in Red Hat CloudForms 3.0 Management Engine (CFME) before 5.2.4.2 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name.
CVE-2014-3537 3 Apple, Canonical, Fedoraproject 3 Cups, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora 2025-04-12 1.2 LOW N/A
The web interface in CUPS before 1.7.4 allows local users in the lp group to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /var/cache/cups/rss/.
CVE-2011-3154 1 Canonical 2 Ubuntu Linux, Update-manager 2025-04-12 1.9 LOW N/A
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to obtain the XAUTHORITY file content for a user via a symlink attack on the temporary file.
CVE-2011-0012 2 Mozilla, Redhat 2 Firefox, Spice-xpi 2025-04-11 3.3 LOW N/A
The SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, and possibly other versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the usbrdrctl log file, which has a predictable name.
CVE-2014-1639 1 Debian 1 Syncevolution 2025-04-11 3.3 LOW N/A
syncevo/installcheck-local.sh in syncevolution before 1.3.99.7 uses mktemp 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.
CVE-2014-1640 1 Debian 1 Axiom 2025-04-11 3.3 LOW N/A
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.