CWE-59— Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following)
The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.— MITRE CWE catalog
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CVEs classified under CWE-59page 5 of 32
- CVE-2008-5142MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
sendbug in freebsd-sendpr 3.113+5.3 on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/pr.##### temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5143MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
mgt-helper in multi-gnome-terminal 1.6.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/*.debug or (2) /tmp/*.env temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5144MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5145MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
ltpmenu in ltp 20060918 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/runltp.mainmenu.##### temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5146MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
add-accession-numbers in ctn 3.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/accession temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5147MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
test-pipe-to-pyodconverter.org.sh in docvert 2.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/outer.odt temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5148MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
sch2eaglepos.sh in geda-gnetlist 1.4.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/##### temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5149MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
fwd_check.sh in libncbi6 6.1.20080302 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/##### temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5150MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
sample.sh in maildirsync 1.1 allows local users to append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/maildirsync-*.#####.log temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5151MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
test_parser.py in mayavi 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/err.log temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5152MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
inmail-show in mh-book 200605 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/inmail#####.log or (2) /tmp/inmail#####.stdin temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5154MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
bluetooth.rc in p3nfs 5.19 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/blue.log temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5155HIGHCVSS v2 9.3EG 9.32008-11-18
mail2sms.sh in smsclient 2.0.8z allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/header.##### or (2) /tmp/body.##### temporary file, or append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (3) /tmp/s…
- CVE-2008-5156MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
si_mkbootserver in systemimager-server 3.6.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/*.inetd.conf or (2) /tmp/pxe.conf.*.tmp temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5157MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-11-18
tau 2.16.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/makefile.tau.*.##### or (2) /tmp/makefile.tau*.##### temporary file, related to the (a) tau_cxx, (b) tau_f90, and (c) tau_cc scripts.
- CVE-2008-5256MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.4EG 4.42008-11-27
The AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp in Sun Innotek VirtualBox before 2.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc/lock temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5299MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-01
chm2pdf 0.9 allows user-assisted local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .chm files in the (1) /tmp/chm2pdf/work or (2) /tmp/chm2pdf/orig temporary directories.
- CVE-2008-5312MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-03
mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) panda-autoupdate.new…
- CVE-2008-5313MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-03
mailscanner 4.68.8 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) avast-autoupdate, and…
- CVE-2008-5366MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
The postinst script in ppp 2.4.4rel on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/probe-finished or (2) /tmp/ppp-errors temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5367MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
ip-up in ppp-udeb 2.4.4rel on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/resolv.conf.tmp temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5368MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
muttprint in muttprint 0.72d allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/muttprint.log temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5369MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
noip2 in noip2 2.1.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/noip2 temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5370MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
pvpgn-support-installer in pvpgn 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pvpgn-support-1.0.tar.gz temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5371MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
screenie in screenie 1.30.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.screenie.##### temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5372MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
sdm-login in sdm-terminal 0.4.0b allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sdm.autologin.once temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5373MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
mtx-changer.Adic-Scalar-24 in bacula-common 2.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/mtx.##### temporary file, probably a related issue to CVE-2005-2995.
- CVE-2008-5374MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
bash-doc 3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/cb#####.? temporary file, related to the (1) aliasconv.sh, (2) aliasconv.bash, and (3) cshtobash scripts.
- CVE-2008-5375MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
cmus-status-display in cmus 2.2.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/cmus-status temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5376MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
editcomment in crip 3.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/*.tag.tmp temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5377MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
pstopdf in CUPS 1.3.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pstopdf.log temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-1333.
- CVE-2008-5378MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
arb-kill in arb 0.0.20071207.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/arb_pids_*_* temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5379MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
netdisco-mibs-installer 1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/netdisco-mibs-0.6.tar.gz temporary file, related to the (1) netdisco-mibs-install and (2) netdisco-mibs-download scripts.
- CVE-2008-5380MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-08
gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.09 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an (a) /tmp/geo#####, a (b) /tmp/geocaching.loc, a (c) /tmp/geo#####.*, or a (d) /tmp/geo.* temporary file, related to the (1) geo…
- CVE-2008-5394HIGHCVSS v2 7.2EG 7.22008-12-09
/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field …
- CVE-2008-5703MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.2EG 6.22008-12-22
gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/.smswatch or (b) /tmp/gpsdrivepos temporary file, related to (1) examples/gpssmswatch and (2) src/splash.c, diff…
- CVE-2008-5704HIGHCVSS v2 7.6EG 7.62008-12-22
src/unit_test.c in gpsdrive (aka gpsdrive-scripts) 2.10~pre4 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gpsdrive-unit-test/proc temporary file, a different vector than CVE-2008-4959 and CVE-2008-5…
- CVE-2008-5706MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-22
The cTrigger::DoIt function in src/ctrigger.cpp in the trigger mechanism in the daemon in Verlihub 0.9.8d-RC2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/trigger.tmp temporary file.
- CVE-2008-5742MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.0EG 4.02008-12-26
Multiple open redirect vulnerabilities in AIST NetCat 3.12 and earlier allow remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via (1) the redirect parameter in a logoff action to modules/auth/index.php…
- CVE-2008-5743MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-26
pdfjam creates the (1) pdf90, (2) pdfjoin, and (3) pdfnup files with a predictable name, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
- CVE-2008-5746MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92008-12-29
Sun SNMP Management Agent (SUNWmasf) 1.4u2 through 1.5.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on temporary files.
- CVE-2008-5825LOWCVSS v2 2.6EG 2.62009-01-02
The SmartPoster implementation on the Nokia 6131 Near Field Communication (NFC) phone with 05.12 firmware does not properly display the URI record when the Title record contains a certain combination of space, CR (aka \r), and . (dot) char…
- CVE-2008-6397MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.4EG 4.42009-03-04
rlatex in AlcoveBook sgml2x 1.0.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
- CVE-2008-6398MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92009-03-04
sng_regress in SNG 1.0.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/recompiled$$.png, (2) /tmp/decompiled$$.sng, and (3) /tmp/canonicalized$$.sng temporary files.
- CVE-2008-6552MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.9EG 6.92009-03-30
Red Hat Cluster Project 2.x allows local users to modify or overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on files in /tmp, involving unspecified components in Resource Group Manager (aka rgmanager) before 2.03.09-1, gfs2-utils before 2.03…
- CVE-2008-6759MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.3EG 4.32009-04-28
ViArt Shop (aka Shopping Cart) 3.5 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a URL in the POST_DATA parameter to manuals_search.php, which reveals the installation path in an error message.
- CVE-2008-6760MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.3EG 4.32009-04-28
ViArt Shop (aka Shopping Cart) 3.5 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an unauthenticated add and save action for a shopping cart in cart_save.php, which reveals the SQL table names in an error message, related to c…
- CVE-2008-6762MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.3EG 4.32009-04-28
Open redirect vulnerability in wp-admin/upgrade.php in WordPress, probably 2.6.x, allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the backto parameter.
- CVE-2008-7247MEDIUMCVSS v2 6.0EG 6.02009-11-30
sql/sql_table.cc in MySQL 5.0.x through 5.0.88, 5.1.x through 5.1.41, and 6.0 before 6.0.9-alpha, when the data home directory contains a symlink to a different filesystem, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restri…
- CVE-2008-7273HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82019-11-18
A symlink issue exists in Iceweasel-firegpg before 0.6 due to insecure tempfile handling.
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