VYPR

CWE-59

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

BaseDraftLikelihood: Medium

Description

The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.

Hierarchy (View 1000)

Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-132 · CAPEC-17 · CAPEC-35 · CAPEC-76

CVEs mapped to this weakness (624)

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CVESevRiskCVSSEPSSKEVPublishedDescription
CVE-2010-20560.000.00Jul 22, 2010GNU gv before 3.7.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
CVE-2010-24310.000.00Jun 22, 2010The cupsFileOpen function in CUPS before 1.4.4 allows local users, with lp group membership, to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /var/cache/cups/remote.cache or (2) /var/cache/cups/job.cache file.
CVE-2010-21920.000.00Jun 18, 2010The make_lockdir_name function in policy.c in pmount 0.9.18 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /var/lock/.
CVE-2010-05460.000.00Jun 17, 2010Folder Manager in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8, and 10.6 before 10.6.4, allows local users to delete arbitrary folders via a symlink attack in conjunction with an unmount operation on a crafted volume, related to the Cleanup At Startup folder.
CVE-2010-20530.000.00Jun 7, 2010emesenelib/ProfileManager.py in emesene before 1.6.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the emsnpic temporary file.
CVE-2010-20270.000.00May 24, 2010Mathematica 7, when running on Linux, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) files within /tmp/MathLink/ or (2) /tmp/fonts$$.conf.
CVE-2010-16260.000.00May 21, 2010MySQL before 5.1.46 allows local users to delete the data and index files of another user's MyISAM table via a symlink attack in conjunction with the DROP TABLE command, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4098 and CVE-2008-7247.
CVE-2010-11600.000.00Apr 16, 2010GNU nano before 2.2.4 does not verify whether a file has been changed before it is overwritten in a file-save operation, which allows local user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an attacker-owned file that is being edited by the victim.
CVE-2010-04390.000.00Mar 26, 2010Chip Salzenberg Deliver allows local users to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, and possibly change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file.
CVE-2009-12990.000.00Mar 18, 2010The pa_make_secure_dir function in core-util.c in PulseAudio 0.9.10 and 0.9.19 allows local users to change the ownership and permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.esd-##### temporary file.
CVE-2010-07920.000.00Mar 5, 2010fcrontab in fcron before 3.0.5 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file.
CVE-2009-46640.000.00Mar 3, 2010Firewall Builder 3.0.4, 3.0.5, and 3.0.6, when running on Linux, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that is created by the iptables script.
CVE-2010-01560.000.00Mar 3, 2010Puppet 0.24.x before 0.24.9 and 0.25.x before 0.25.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/daemonout, (2) /tmp/puppetdoc.txt, (3) /tmp/puppetdoc.tex, or (4) /tmp/puppetdoc.aux temporary file.
CVE-2010-07890.000.00Mar 2, 2010fusermount in FUSE before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2, allows local users to unmount an arbitrary FUSE filesystem share via a symlink attack on a mountpoint.
CVE-2010-07870.000.00Mar 2, 2010client/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba 3.0.22, 3.0.28a, 3.2.3, 3.3.2, 3.4.0, and 3.4.5 allows local users to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges, via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.
CVE-2010-04240.000.00Feb 25, 2010The edit_cmd function in crontab.c in (1) cronie before 1.4.4 and (2) Vixie cron (vixie-cron) allows local users to change the modification times of arbitrary files, and consequently cause a denial of service, via a symlink attack on a temporary file in the /tmp directory.
CVE-2010-01180.000.00Feb 25, 2010Bournal before 1.4.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified temporary files associated with a --hack_the_gibson update check.
CVE-2009-41350.000.00Dec 11, 2009The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp.
CVE-2009-33040.000.00Dec 4, 2009GForge 4.5.14, 4.7 rc2, and 4.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on authorized_keys files in users' home directories, related to deb-specific/ssh_dump_update.pl and cronjobs/cvs-cron/ssh_create.php.
CVE-2009-41930.000.00Dec 3, 2009Merkaartor 0.14 allows local users to append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/merkaartor.log temporary file.