Vulnerabilities (CVE)

Filtered by CWE-59
Total 1140 CVE
CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v2 CVSS v3
CVE-2014-3421 2 Gnu, Mageia Project 2 Emacs, Mageia 2016-06-30 3.3 LOW N/A
lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file.
CVE-2015-0858 2 Debian, Tardiff Project 2 Debian Linux, Tardiff 2016-05-09 2.1 LOW 3.3 LOW
Cool Projects TarDiff allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pathname in a /tmp/tardiff-$$ temporary directory.
CVE-2015-6566 2 Fedoraproject, Zarafa 2 Fedora, Zarafa Collaboration Platform 2016-01-13 7.2 HIGH 8.4 HIGH
zarafa-autorespond in Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP) before 7.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/zarafa-vacation-*.
CVE-2015-1338 2 Apport Project, Canonical 2 Apport, Ubuntu Linux 2015-10-02 7.2 HIGH N/A
kernel_crashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) symlink or (2) hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log.
CVE-2015-1377 1 Webmin 1 Webmin 2015-02-11 4.9 MEDIUM N/A
The Read Mail module in Webmin 1.720 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file.
CVE-2015-1194 1 Pax Project 1 Pax 2015-01-23 4.3 MEDIUM N/A
pax 1:20140703 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.
CVE-2014-6407 1 Docker 1 Docker 2014-12-15 7.5 HIGH N/A
Docker before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a (1) symlink or (2) hard link attack in an image archive in a (a) pull or (b) load operation.
CVE-2014-5260 1 Xml-dt Project 1 Xml-dt 2014-09-08 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-2013-6124 1 Codeaurora 1 Android-msm 2014-09-02 3.3 LOW N/A
The Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) init scripts in Code Aurora Forum (CAF) releases of Android 4.1.x through 4.4.x allow local users to modify file metadata via a symlink attack on a file accessed by a (1) chown or (2) chmod command, as demonstrated by changing the permissions of an arbitrary file via an attack on the sensor-settings file.
CVE-2009-5023 1 Fail2ban 1 Fail2ban 2014-06-24 4.7 MEDIUM N/A
The (1) dshield.conf, (2) mail-buffered.conf, (3) mynetwatchman.conf, and (4) mynetwatchman.conf actions in action.d/ in Fail2ban before 0.8.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names, as demonstrated by /tmp/fail2ban-mail.txt.
CVE-2014-3986 1 Cisofy 1 Lynis 2014-06-09 3.3 LOW N/A
include/tests_webservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis.*.unsorted file with an easily determined name.
CVE-2014-3982 1 Cisofy 1 Lynis 2014-06-09 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-2013-4215 1 Nagios 1 Plugins 2014-05-06 4.4 MEDIUM N/A
The IPXPING_COMMAND in contrib/check_ipxping.c in Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping.
CVE-2013-0350 1 David Leonard 1 Pkstat 2014-05-05 6.3 MEDIUM N/A
tmp_smtp.c in pktstat 1.8.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/smtp.log.
CVE-2011-3154 1 Canonical 2 Ubuntu Linux, Update-manager 2014-05-05 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-2001-1593 1 Gnu 1 A2ps 2014-05-01 2.1 LOW N/A
The tempname_ensure function in lib/routines.h in a2ps 4.14 and earlier, as used by the spy_user function and possibly other functions, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
CVE-2013-4472 1 Freedesktop 1 Poppler 2014-04-23 3.3 LOW N/A
The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.
CVE-2011-4105 1 Robert Ancell 1 Lightdm 2014-03-08 1.9 LOW N/A
LightDM before 1.0.6 allows local users to change ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.Xauthority.
CVE-2011-3153 2 Canonical, Robert Ancell 2 Ubuntu Linux, Lightdm 2014-03-07 1.9 LOW N/A
dmrc.c in Light Display Manager (aka LightDM) before 1.1.1 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.dmrc.
CVE-2013-6891 2 Apple, Canonical 2 Cups, Ubuntu Linux 2014-03-06 1.2 LOW N/A
lppasswd in CUPS before 1.7.1, when running with setuid privileges, allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via a modified HOME environment variable and a symlink attack involving .cups/client.conf.