CWE-61
UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
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.
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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-27
CVEs mapped to this weakness (169)
page 6 of 9| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2025-30485 | Med | 0.40 | 6.2 | 0.00 | Apr 3, 2025 | UNIX symbolic link (Symlink) following issue exists in FutureNet NXR series, VXR series and WXR series routers. Attaching to the affected product an external storage containing malicious symbolic link files, a logged-in administrative user may obtain and/or destroy internal… | ||
| CVE-2025-29787 | Hig | 0.40 | — | 0.01 | Mar 17, 2025 | `zip` is a zip library for rust which supports reading and writing of simple ZIP files. In the archive extraction routine of affected versions of the `zip` crate starting with version 1.3.0 and prior to version 2.3.0, symbolic links earlier in the archive are allowed to be used… | ||
| CVE-2026-35632 | Hig | 0.39 | 7.1 | 0.00 | Apr 9, 2026 | OpenClaw through 2026.2.22 contains a symlink traversal vulnerability in agents.create and agents.update handlers that use fs.appendFile on IDENTITY.md without symlink containment checks. Attackers with workspace access can plant symlinks to append attacker-controlled content to… | ||
| CVE-2026-1386 | Med | 0.39 | 6.0 | 0.00 | Jan 23, 2026 | A UNIX symbolic link following issue in the jailer component in Firecracker version v1.13.1 and earlier and 1.14.0 on Linux may allow a local host user with write access to the pre-created jailer directories to overwrite arbitrary host files via a symlink attack during the… | ||
| CVE-2026-23986 | Hig | 0.39 | 7.1 | 0.00 | Jan 21, 2026 | Copier is a library and CLI app for rendering project templates. Prior to version 9.11.2, Copier suggests that it's safe to generate a project from a safe template, i.e. one that doesn't use unsafe features like custom Jinja extensions which would require passing the… | ||
| CVE-2025-54867 | Hig | 0.39 | 7.0 | 0.00 | Aug 14, 2025 | Youki is a container runtime written in Rust. Prior to version 0.5.5, if /proc and /sys in the rootfs are symbolic links, they can potentially be exploited to gain access to the host root filesystem. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.5. | ||
| CVE-2024-45339 | Hig | 0.39 | 7.1 | 0.00 | Jan 28, 2025 | When logs are written to a widely-writable directory (the default), an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink… | ||
| CVE-2024-25953 | Med | 0.39 | 6.0 | 0.00 | Mar 28, 2024 | Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 9.4.0.x through 9.7.0.x contains an UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service, information tampering. | ||
| CVE-2024-25952 | Med | 0.39 | 6.0 | 0.00 | Mar 28, 2024 | Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.2.x through 9.7.0.x contains an UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service, information tampering. | ||
| CVE-2026-62992 | Med | 0.38 | — | 0.00 | Aug 7, 2026 | Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. Prior to 5.8.2 (and 4.5.7 on the 4.x line), Security::_checkDir() does not fully resolve symbolic links before validating that a requested path lies within a… | ||
| CVE-2026-47763 | Med | 0.37 | — | 0.00 | Aug 4, 2026 | pdm is a Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. In versions prior to 2.27.0, pdm writes several project-local state or configuration files without symlink protection. If a malicious repository places those files as symlinks, local PDM… | ||
| CVE-2026-65010 | Med | 0.36 | 6.6 | 0.00 | Jul 23, 2026 | Datasets through 5.00, fixed in commit ad2d853, contains a symlink-following vulnerability in Extractor.extract() that allows local attackers to write arbitrary files by pre-planting symlinks at predictable output paths. Attackers can redirect archive extraction to arbitrary… | ||
| CVE-2025-43278 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jun 11, 2026 | This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4. An app may be able to access protected user data. | ||
| CVE-2026-28684 | Med | 0.36 | 6.6 | 0.00 | Apr 20, 2026 | python-dotenv reads key-value pairs from a .env file and can set them as environment variables. Prior to version 1.2.2, `set_key()` and `unset_key()` in python-dotenv follow symbolic links when rewriting `.env` files, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a… | ||
| CVE-2026-20694 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Mar 25, 2026 | This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, macOS Sequoia 15.7.4, macOS Sequoia 15.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.8.4, macOS Sonoma 14.8.5, macOS Tahoe 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.4. An app may be able to access user-sensitive… | ||
| CVE-2025-5468 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Aug 12, 2025 | Improper handling of symbolic links in Ivanti Connect Secure before version 22.7R2.8 or 22.8R2, Ivanti Policy Secure before 22.7R1.5, Ivanti ZTA Gateway before 22.8R2.3-723 and Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access before 22.8R1.4 (Fix deployed on 02-Aug-2025) allows a local… | ||
| CVE-2025-24832 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Feb 27, 2025 | Arbitrary file overwrite during home directory recovery due to improper symbolic link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.8.4.866, Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.9.1.892,… | ||
| CVE-2024-34014 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Nov 11, 2024 | Arbitrary file overwrite during recovery due to improper symbolic link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.8.3.818, Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.9.1.892, Acronis Backup… | ||
| CVE-2024-27872 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jul 29, 2024 | This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.6. An app may be able to access protected user data. | ||
| CVE-2024-23285 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Mar 8, 2024 | This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.4. An app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk. |
- risk 0.40cvss 6.2epss 0.00
UNIX symbolic link (Symlink) following issue exists in FutureNet NXR series, VXR series and WXR series routers. Attaching to the affected product an external storage containing malicious symbolic link files, a logged-in administrative user may obtain and/or destroy internal…
- risk 0.40cvss —epss 0.01
`zip` is a zip library for rust which supports reading and writing of simple ZIP files. In the archive extraction routine of affected versions of the `zip` crate starting with version 1.3.0 and prior to version 2.3.0, symbolic links earlier in the archive are allowed to be used…
- risk 0.39cvss 7.1epss 0.00
OpenClaw through 2026.2.22 contains a symlink traversal vulnerability in agents.create and agents.update handlers that use fs.appendFile on IDENTITY.md without symlink containment checks. Attackers with workspace access can plant symlinks to append attacker-controlled content to…
- risk 0.39cvss 6.0epss 0.00
A UNIX symbolic link following issue in the jailer component in Firecracker version v1.13.1 and earlier and 1.14.0 on Linux may allow a local host user with write access to the pre-created jailer directories to overwrite arbitrary host files via a symlink attack during the…
- risk 0.39cvss 7.1epss 0.00
Copier is a library and CLI app for rendering project templates. Prior to version 9.11.2, Copier suggests that it's safe to generate a project from a safe template, i.e. one that doesn't use unsafe features like custom Jinja extensions which would require passing the…
- risk 0.39cvss 7.0epss 0.00
Youki is a container runtime written in Rust. Prior to version 0.5.5, if /proc and /sys in the rootfs are symbolic links, they can potentially be exploited to gain access to the host root filesystem. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.5.
- risk 0.39cvss 7.1epss 0.00
When logs are written to a widely-writable directory (the default), an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink…
- risk 0.39cvss 6.0epss 0.00
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 9.4.0.x through 9.7.0.x contains an UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service, information tampering.
- risk 0.39cvss 6.0epss 0.00
Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 8.2.2.x through 9.7.0.x contains an UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability. A local high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service, information tampering.
- risk 0.38cvss —epss 0.00
Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. Prior to 5.8.2 (and 4.5.7 on the 4.x line), Security::_checkDir() does not fully resolve symbolic links before validating that a requested path lies within a…
- risk 0.37cvss —epss 0.00
pdm is a Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. In versions prior to 2.27.0, pdm writes several project-local state or configuration files without symlink protection. If a malicious repository places those files as symlinks, local PDM…
- risk 0.36cvss 6.6epss 0.00
Datasets through 5.00, fixed in commit ad2d853, contains a symlink-following vulnerability in Extractor.extract() that allows local attackers to write arbitrary files by pre-planting symlinks at predictable output paths. Attackers can redirect archive extraction to arbitrary…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4. An app may be able to access protected user data.
- risk 0.36cvss 6.6epss 0.00
python-dotenv reads key-value pairs from a .env file and can set them as environment variables. Prior to version 1.2.2, `set_key()` and `unset_key()` in python-dotenv follow symbolic links when rewriting `.env` files, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, macOS Sequoia 15.7.4, macOS Sequoia 15.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.8.4, macOS Sonoma 14.8.5, macOS Tahoe 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.4. An app may be able to access user-sensitive…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Improper handling of symbolic links in Ivanti Connect Secure before version 22.7R2.8 or 22.8R2, Ivanti Policy Secure before 22.7R1.5, Ivanti ZTA Gateway before 22.8R2.3-723 and Ivanti Neurons for Secure Access before 22.8R1.4 (Fix deployed on 02-Aug-2025) allows a local…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Arbitrary file overwrite during home directory recovery due to improper symbolic link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.8.4.866, Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.9.1.892,…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Arbitrary file overwrite during recovery due to improper symbolic link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.8.3.818, Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.9.1.892, Acronis Backup…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.6. An app may be able to access protected user data.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.4. An app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk.