VYPR

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-2025-30485MedApr 3, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2025-29787HigMar 17, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2026-35632HigApr 9, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2026-1386MedJan 23, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2026-23986HigJan 21, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-54867HigAug 14, 2025
    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.

  • CVE-2024-45339HigJan 28, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2024-25953MedMar 28, 2024
    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.

  • CVE-2024-25952MedMar 28, 2024
    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.

  • CVE-2026-62992MedAug 7, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2026-47763MedAug 4, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2026-65010MedJul 23, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-43278MedJun 11, 2026
    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.

  • CVE-2026-28684MedApr 20, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2026-20694MedMar 25, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-5468MedAug 12, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2025-24832MedFeb 27, 2025
    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,…

  • CVE-2024-34014MedNov 11, 2024
    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…

  • CVE-2024-27872MedJul 29, 2024
    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.

  • CVE-2024-23285MedMar 8, 2024
    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.