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cveMitreCVE-2014-1638
HistoryJan 28, 2014 - 12:55 a.m.

CVE-2014-1638

2014-01-2800:55:04
CWE-59
mitre
web.nvd.nist.gov
19
cve-2014-1638
localepurge
symlink attack
security vulnerability
nvd

CVSS2

3.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use 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.

Affected configurations

Nvd
Node
debianlocalepurgeRange0.7.3.1
VendorProductVersionCPE
debianlocalepurge*cpe:2.3:a:debian:localepurge:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS2

3.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%