Filtered by CWE-59
Total 1414 CVE
CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v3.1
CVE-2016-1247 4 Canonical, Debian, F5 and 1 more 4 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Nginx and 1 more 2025-04-12 7.8 High
The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.
CVE-2011-3153 2 Canonical, Robert Ancell 2 Ubuntu Linux, Lightdm 2025-04-12 N/A
dmrc.c in Light Display Manager (aka LightDM) before 1.1.1 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ~/.dmrc.
CVE-2014-3421 2 Gnu, Mageia Project 2 Emacs, Mageia 2025-04-12 N/A
lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file.
CVE-2014-3423 2 Gnu, Mageia Project 2 Emacs, Mageia 2025-04-12 N/A
lisp/net/browse-url.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/Mosaic.##### temporary file.
CVE-2011-0460 2 Kbd-project, Opensuse 2 Kbd, Opensuse 2025-04-12 N/A
The init script in kbd, possibly 1.14.1 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/defkeymap.map.
CVE-2015-1196 3 Gnu, Opensuse, Oracle 3 Patch, Opensuse, Solaris 2025-04-12 N/A
GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.
CVE-2010-5105 1 Blender 1 Blender 2025-04-12 N/A
The undo save quit routine in the kernel in Blender 2.5, 2.63a, and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the quit.blend temporary file. NOTE: this issue might be a regression of CVE-2008-1103.
CVE-2015-1807 2 Jenkins, Redhat 2 Jenkins, Openshift 2025-04-12 N/A
Directory traversal vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.600 and LTS before 1.596.1 allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to read arbitrary files via a symlink, related to building artifacts.
CVE-2014-3981 1 Php 1 Php 2025-04-12 N/A
acinclude.m4, as used in the configure script in PHP 5.5.13 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/phpglibccheck file.
CVE-2016-9566 2 Nagios, Redhat 3 Nagios, Openstack, Storage 2025-04-12 N/A
base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.
CVE-2014-4877 2 Gnu, Redhat 3 Wget, Enterprise Linux, Rhel Eus 2025-04-12 N/A
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates that the filename is for a symlink.
CVE-2014-3627 1 Apache 1 Hadoop 2025-04-12 N/A
The YARN NodeManager daemon in Apache Hadoop 0.23.0 through 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.5.2, when using Kerberos authentication, allows remote cluster users to change the permissions of certain files to world-readable via a symlink attack in a public tar archive, which is not properly handled during localization, related to distributed cache.
CVE-2014-2524 4 Fedoraproject, Gnu, Mageia and 1 more 4 Fedora, Readline, Mageia and 1 more 2025-04-12 N/A
The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.
CVE-2014-5459 3 Opensuse, Oracle, Php 4 Evergreen, Opensuse, Solaris and 1 more 2025-04-12 N/A
The PEAR_REST class in REST.php in PEAR in PHP through 5.6.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) rest.cachefile or (2) rest.cacheid file in /tmp/pear/cache/, related to the retrieveCacheFirst and useLocalCache functions.
CVE-2013-4472 1 Freedesktop 1 Poppler 2025-04-12 N/A
The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.
CVE-2013-6456 2 Fedoraproject, Redhat 2 Fedora, Libvirt 2025-04-12 N/A
The LXC driver (lxc/lxc_driver.c) in libvirt 1.0.1 through 1.2.1 allows local users to (1) delete arbitrary host devices via the virDomainDeviceDettach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; (2) create arbitrary nodes (mknod) via the virDomainDeviceAttach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; and cause a denial of service (shutdown or reboot host OS) via the (3) virDomainShutdown or (4) virDomainReboot API and a symlink attack on /dev/initctl in the container, related to "paths under /proc/$PID/root" and the virInitctlSetRunLevel function.
CVE-2016-7490 1 Teradata 1 Studio Express 2025-04-12 N/A
The installation script studioexpressinstall for Teradata Studio Express 15.12.00.00 creates files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious local user could create a symlink in /tmp and possibly clobber system files or perhaps elevate privileges.
CVE-2015-7758 2 Gummi Project, Opensuse 3 Gummi, Leap, Opensuse 2025-04-12 N/A
Gummi 0.6.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary dot file that uses the name of an existing file and a (1) .aux, (2) .log, (3) .out, (4) .pdf, or (5) .toc extension for the file name, as demonstrated by .thesis.tex.aux.
CVE-2015-6927 1 Openvz 1 Vzctl 2025-04-12 N/A
vzctl before 4.9.4 determines the virtual environment (VE) layout based on the presence of root.hdd/DiskDescriptor.xml in the VE private directory, which allows local simfs container (CT) root users to change the root password for arbitrary ploop containers, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on the ploop container root.hdd file and then access a control panel.
CVE-2015-1038 3 7-zip, Fedoraproject, Oracle 3 P7zip, Fedora, Solaris 2025-04-12 N/A
p7zip 9.20.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.