Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 10, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2014-5003
CVE-2014-5003
Description
chef/travis-cookbooks/ci_environment/perlbrew/recipes/default.rb in the ciborg gem 3.0.0 for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/perlbrew-installer.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:ciborg_project:ciborg:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
- ghsa-coords
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/07/24nvdMailing ListThird Party AdvisoryWEB
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/17/5nvdMailing ListThird Party AdvisoryWEB
- www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/ciborg-3.0.0.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryWEB
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-g982-9r8g-6qxwghsaADVISORY
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5003ghsaADVISORY
- github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ciborg/CVE-2014-5003.ymlghsaWEB
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