cve-2024-5742
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-12 08:53
Modified
2024-11-12 17:22
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Nano: running `chmod` and `chown` on the filename allows malicious user to replace the emergency file with a malicious symlink to a root-owned file
References
Impacted products
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