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 (1,754)

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  • CVE-2008-5378Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    arb-kill in arb 0.0.20071207.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/arb_pids_*_* temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5376Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    editcomment in crip 3.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/*.tag.tmp temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5375Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    cmus-status-display in cmus 2.2.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/cmus-status temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5374Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    bash-doc 3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/cb#####.? temporary file, related to the (1) aliasconv.sh, (2) aliasconv.bash, and (3) cshtobash scripts.

  • CVE-2008-5373Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    mtx-changer.Adic-Scalar-24 in bacula-common 2.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/mtx.##### temporary file, probably a related issue to CVE-2005-2995.

  • CVE-2008-5372Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    sdm-login in sdm-terminal 0.4.0b allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sdm.autologin.once temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5371Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    screenie in screenie 1.30.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.screenie.##### temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5370Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    pvpgn-support-installer in pvpgn 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pvpgn-support-1.0.tar.gz temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5369Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    noip2 in noip2 2.1.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/noip2 temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5368Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    muttprint in muttprint 0.72d allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/muttprint.log temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5367Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    ip-up in ppp-udeb 2.4.4rel on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/resolv.conf.tmp temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5366Dec 8, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    The postinst script in ppp 2.4.4rel on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/probe-finished or (2) /tmp/ppp-errors temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5313Dec 3, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    mailscanner 4.68.8 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) avast-autoupdate, and (4) f-prot-6-autoupdate scripts in…

  • CVE-2008-5312Dec 3, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) panda-autoupdate.new, (4) trend-autoupdate.new, and (5)…

  • CVE-2008-5299Dec 1, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    chm2pdf 0.9 allows user-assisted local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .chm files in the (1) /tmp/chm2pdf/work or (2) /tmp/chm2pdf/orig temporary directories.

  • CVE-2008-5256Nov 27, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    The AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp in Sun Innotek VirtualBox before 2.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc/lock temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5157Nov 18, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    tau 2.16.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/makefile.tau.*.##### or (2) /tmp/makefile.tau*.##### temporary file, related to the (a) tau_cxx, (b) tau_f90, and (c) tau_cc scripts.

  • CVE-2008-5156Nov 18, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    si_mkbootserver in systemimager-server 3.6.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/*.inetd.conf or (2) /tmp/pxe.conf.*.tmp temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5155Nov 18, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.01

    mail2sms.sh in smsclient 2.0.8z allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/header.##### or (2) /tmp/body.##### temporary file, or append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (3) /tmp/sms.log temporary file.

  • CVE-2008-5154Nov 18, 2008
    risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00

    bluetooth.rc in p3nfs 5.19 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/blue.log temporary file.