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CWE-61

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

CompoundIncompleteLikelihood: High

Description

The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files.

A product that allows UNIX symbolic links (symlink) as part of paths whether in internal code or through user input can allow an attacker to spoof the symbolic link and traverse the file system to unintended locations or access arbitrary files. The symbolic link can permit an attacker to read/write/corrupt a file that they originally did not have permissions to access.

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-27

CVEs mapped to this weakness (169)

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  • CVE-2021-32547HigJun 12, 2021
    risk 0.47cvss 7.3epss 0.00

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-lts package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • CVE-2026-54574HigJul 29, 2026
    risk 0.46cvss 8.2epss 0.00

    proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.5, proot-distro install extracted plain tarball root filesystems through _extract_plain_tar() in proot_distro/commands/install.py and Docker layers through _apply_layer() in…

  • CVE-2026-59674HigJul 14, 2026
    risk 0.46cvss epss 0.00

    A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed suricata package allows the suricata user to escalate to root. This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 8.0.5-2.1; openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 8.0.5-2.1.

  • CVE-2026-7819HigMay 11, 2026
    risk 0.46cvss 8.1epss 0.00

    Symbolic-link path traversal (CWE-61, CWE-22) in pgAdmin 4 File Manager. check_access_permission used os.path.abspath, which resolves '..' but does not resolve symbolic links, while the subsequent kernel write follows symlinks. An authenticated user could plant a symbolic link…

  • CVE-2026-7832HigMay 5, 2026
    risk 0.46cvss 7.0epss 0.00

    A security flaw has been discovered in IObit Advanced SystemCare 19. This affects an unknown part of the file ASC.exe of the component Service. The manipulation results in symlink following. Attacking locally is a requirement. This attack is characterized by high complexity. It…

  • CVE-2026-41364HigApr 28, 2026
    risk 0.46cvss 8.1epss 0.01

    OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains a symlink following vulnerability in SSH sandbox tar upload that allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files. Attackers can exploit this by uploading tar archives containing symlinks to escape the sandbox and overwrite files on the remote…

  • CVE-2026-41326HigApr 24, 2026
    risk 0.46cvss 8.2epss 0.00

    Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. From v3.4.0 to v3.28.0, an oversight in the CopyFile policy (and perhaps the CopyFile handler) allows untrusted hosts to write to…

  • CVE-2025-9566HigSep 5, 2025
    risk 0.46cvss 8.1epss 0.01

    There's a vulnerability in podman where an attacker may use the kube play command to overwrite host files when the kube file container a Secrete or a ConfigMap volume mount and such volume contains a symbolic link to a host file path. In a successful attack, the attacker can…

  • CVE-2025-22480HigFeb 13, 2025
    risk 0.46cvss 7.0epss 0.00

    Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery versions prior to 5.5.13.1 contain a symbolic link attack vulnerability. A low-privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to arbitrary file deletion and Elevation of Privileges.

  • CVE-2024-52535HigDec 25, 2024
    risk 0.46cvss 7.1epss 0.01

    Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs versions 4.6.1 and prior and Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs versions 4.5.0 and prior, contain a symbolic link (symlink) attack vulnerability in the software remediation component. A low-privileged authenticated user could potentially exploit…

  • CVE-2024-1933HigMar 26, 2024
    risk 0.46cvss 7.1epss 0.00

    Insecure UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following in TeamViewer Remote Client prior Version 15.52 for macOS allows an attacker with unprivileged access, to potentially elevate privileges or conduct a denial-of-service-attack by overwriting the symlink.

  • CVE-2023-37460HigJul 25, 2023
    risk 0.46cvss 8.1epss 0.02

    Plexis Archiver is a collection of Plexus components to create archives or extract archives to a directory with a unified `Archiver`/`UnArchiver` API. Prior to version 4.8.0, using AbstractUnArchiver for extracting an archive might lead to an arbitrary file creation and possibly…

  • CVE-2020-15075HigMar 30, 2021
    risk 0.46cvss 7.1epss 0.00

    OpenVPN Connect installer for macOS version 3.2.6 and older may corrupt system critical files it should not have access via symlinks in /tmp.

  • CVE-2025-53881MedOct 2, 2025
    risk 0.45cvss epss 0.00

    A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in logrotate config in the exim package allowed privilege escalation from mail user/group to root.This issue affects Tumbleweed: from ? before 4.98.2-lp156.248.1.

  • CVE-2026-39822HigJul 8, 2026
    risk 0.44cvss 7.8epss 0.00

    On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open("symlink/")' will open "symlink" even when "symlink" is a…

  • CVE-2026-12958HigJun 23, 2026
    risk 0.44cvss 7.8epss 0.00

    Missing symlink validation in Language Servers for AWS may allow an arbitrary file write outside of the workspace trust boundary. This may occur when a local user opens a workspace with a maliciously crafted symlink that resolves to a file path outside the workspace trust…

  • CVE-2026-33711HigMar 26, 2026
    risk 0.44cvss 7.8epss 0.00

    Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Incus provides an API to retrieve VM screenshots. That API relies on the use of a temporary file for QEMU to write the screenshot to which is then picked up and sent to the user prior to deletion. As versions prior to…

  • CVE-2025-31133HigNov 6, 2025
    risk 0.44cvss 7.8epss 0.01

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7 and below, 1.3.0-rc.1 through 1.3.1, 1.4.0-rc.1 and 1.4.0-rc.2 files, runc would not perform sufficient verification that the source of the bind-mount (i.e., the…

  • CVE-2021-25322MedJun 10, 2021
    risk 0.44cvss 6.8epss 0.00

    A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in python-HyperKitty of openSUSE Leap 15.2, Factory allows local attackers to escalate privileges from the user hyperkitty or hyperkitty-admin to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.2 python-HyperKitty version…

  • CVE-2019-16775HigDec 13, 2019
    risk 0.43cvss 7.7epss 0.03

    Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.3 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Write. It is possible for packages to create symlinks to files outside of thenode_modules folder through the bin field upon installation. A properly constructed entry in the package.json bin field would…