Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 28, 2014· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2014-1640
CVE-2014-1640
Description
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.
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