CVE-2016-9595
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-27 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in katello-debug before 3.4.0 where certain scripts and log files used insecure temporary files. A local user could exploit this flaw to conduct a symbolic-link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9595Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Foremankatello-debug
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