Vulnerabilities (CVE)

Filtered by CWE-59
Total 1265 CVE
CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v2 CVSS v3
CVE-2014-3986 1 Cisofy 1 Lynis 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW N/A
include/tests_webservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis.*.unsorted file with an easily determined name.
CVE-2014-4199 1 Vmware 3 Tools, Vm-support, Workstation 2025-04-12 6.3 MEDIUM N/A
vm-support 0.88 in VMware Tools, as distributed with VMware Workstation through 10.0.3 and other products, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /tmp.
CVE-2016-7490 1 Teradata 1 Studio Express 2025-04-12 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
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-2015-1038 3 7-zip, Fedoraproject, Oracle 3 P7zip, Fedora, Solaris 2025-04-12 5.8 MEDIUM N/A
p7zip 9.20.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.
CVE-2016-1247 4 Canonical, Debian, F5 and 1 more 4 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Nginx and 1 more 2025-04-12 7.2 HIGH 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-2015-1335 2 Canonical, Linuxcontainers 2 Ubuntu Linux, Lxc 2025-04-12 7.2 HIGH N/A
lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.
CVE-2015-0858 2 Debian, Tardiff Project 2 Debian Linux, Tardiff 2025-04-12 2.1 LOW 3.3 LOW
Cool Projects TarDiff allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pathname in a /tmp/tardiff-$$ temporary directory.
CVE-2015-1331 1 Linuxcontainers 1 Lxc 2025-04-12 4.9 MEDIUM N/A
lxclock.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /run/lock/lxc/*.
CVE-2013-6456 2 Fedoraproject, Redhat 2 Fedora, Libvirt 2025-04-12 5.8 MEDIUM 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-2015-3436 1 Zarafa 1 Zarafa Collaboration Platform 2025-04-12 6.6 MEDIUM N/A
provider/server/ECServer.cpp in Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP) before 7.1.13 and 7.2.x before 7.2.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/zarafa-upgrade-lock.
CVE-2014-3422 2 Gnu, Mageia Project 2 Emacs, Mageia 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW N/A
lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file under /tmp/esrc/.
CVE-2010-5105 1 Blender 1 Blender 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW 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-2014-1875 1 Cspan 1 Capture-tiny 2025-04-12 3.6 LOW N/A
The Capture::Tiny module before 0.24 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
CVE-2014-1272 1 Apple 2 Iphone Os, Tvos 2025-04-12 6.3 MEDIUM N/A
CrashHouseKeeping in Crash Reporting in Apple iOS before 7.1 and Apple TV before 6.1 allows local users to change arbitrary file permissions by leveraging a symlink.
CVE-2014-3423 2 Gnu, Mageia Project 2 Emacs, Mageia 2025-04-12 3.3 LOW 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-2015-3759 1 Apple 1 Iphone Os 2025-04-12 4.6 MEDIUM N/A
Location Framework in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 allows local users to bypass intended restrictions on filesystem modification via a symlink.
CVE-2014-4372 1 Apple 2 Iphone Os, Tvos 2025-04-12 3.6 LOW N/A
syslogd in the syslog subsystem in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file.
CVE-2015-6927 1 Openvz 1 Vzctl 2025-04-12 3.6 LOW 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-2014-3537 3 Apple, Canonical, Fedoraproject 3 Cups, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora 2025-04-12 1.2 LOW N/A
The web interface in CUPS before 1.7.4 allows local users in the lp group to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in /var/cache/cups/rss/.
CVE-2014-1932 2 Python, Pythonware 2 Pillow, Python Imaging Library 2025-04-12 4.4 MEDIUM N/A
The (1) load_djpeg function in JpegImagePlugin.py, (2) Ghostscript function in EpsImagePlugin.py, (3) load function in IptcImagePlugin.py, and (4) _copy function in Image.py in Python Image Library (PIL) 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow before 2.3.1 do not properly create temporary files, which allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on the temporary file.