Vulnerabilities (CVE)

Filtered by CWE-59
Total 1390 CVE
CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v2 CVSS v3
CVE-2015-6240 1 Redhat 1 Ansible 2025-04-20 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
The chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins in ansible before 1.9.2 allow local users to escape a restricted environment via a symlink attack.
CVE-2017-8806 3 Canonical, Debian, Postgresql 3 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Postgresql 2025-04-20 3.6 LOW 5.5 MEDIUM
The Debian pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster, and pg_upgradecluster scripts, as distributed in the Debian postgresql-common package before 181+deb9u1 for PostgreSQL (and other packages related to Debian and Ubuntu), handled symbolic links insecurely, which could result in local denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.
CVE-2015-3211 1 Php-fpm 1 Php-fpm 2025-04-20 2.1 LOW 5.5 MEDIUM
php-fpm allows local users to write to or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
CVE-2017-15357 1 Arqbackup 1 Arq 2025-04-20 6.9 MEDIUM 7.4 HIGH
The setpermissions function in the auto-updater in Arq before 5.9.7 for Mac allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the updater binary itself.
CVE-2015-7723 1 Amd 1 Fglrx-driver 2025-04-20 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
AMD fglrx-driver before 15.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.
CVE-2016-9774 3 Apache, Canonical, Debian 3 Tomcat, Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux 2025-04-20 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before 8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the tomcat account to obtain sensitive information or gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina localhost directory.
CVE-2015-7529 3 Canonical, Redhat, Sos Project 8 Ubuntu Linux, Enterprise Linux Desktop, Enterprise Linux Server and 5 more 2025-04-20 4.6 MEDIUM 7.8 HIGH
sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.
CVE-2015-5705 2 Devscripts Devel Team, Fedoraproject 2 Devscripts, Fedora 2025-04-20 5.0 MEDIUM 7.5 HIGH
Argument injection vulnerability in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted symlink and crafted filename.
CVE-2015-7724 1 Amd 1 Fglrx-driver 2025-04-20 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
AMD fglrx-driver before 15.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack. NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7723.
CVE-2014-4978 2 Fedoraproject, Rawstudio 2 Fedora, Rawstudio 2025-04-20 3.6 LOW 5.5 MEDIUM
The rs_filter_graph function in librawstudio/rs-filter.c in rawstudio might allow local users to truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/rs-filter-graph.png or (2) /tmp/rs-filter-graph.
CVE-2017-2390 1 Apple 4 Iphone Os, Mac Os X, Tvos and 1 more 2025-04-20 2.1 LOW 5.5 MEDIUM
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3 is affected. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. tvOS before 10.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.2 is affected. The issue involves symlink mishandling in the "libarchive" component. It allows local users to change arbitrary directory permissions via unspecified vectors.
CVE-2017-1000115 3 Debian, Mercurial, Redhat 8 Debian Linux, Mercurial, Enterprise Linux Desktop and 5 more 2025-04-20 5.0 MEDIUM 7.5 HIGH
Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository
CVE-2015-8326 1 Iptables-parse Project 1 Iptables-parse Module 2025-04-20 3.6 LOW 5.5 MEDIUM
The IPTables-Parse module before 1.6 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files owned by the current user.
CVE-2016-3108 1 Pulpproject 1 Pulp 2025-04-20 3.6 LOW 7.1 HIGH
The pulp-gen-nodes-certificate script in Pulp before 2.8.3 allows local users to leak the keys or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
CVE-2017-7501 1 Rpm 1 Rpm 2025-04-20 4.6 MEDIUM 7.8 HIGH
It was found that versions of rpm before 4.13.0.2 use temporary files with predictable names when installing an RPM. An attacker with ability to write in a directory where files will be installed could create symbolic links to an arbitrary location and modify content, and possibly permissions to arbitrary files, which could be used for denial of service or possibly privilege escalation.
CVE-2017-2916 1 Meetcircle 2 Circle With Disney, Circle With Disney Firmware 2025-04-20 9.0 HIGH 8.8 HIGH
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the /api/CONFIG/restore functionality of Circle with Disney running firmware 2.0.1. Specially crafted network packets can cause an arbitrary file to be overwritten. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.
CVE-2017-6981 1 Apple 2 Iphone Os, Mac Os X 2025-04-20 9.3 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.5 is affected. The issue involves the "iBooks" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app that uses symlinks.
CVE-2017-9525 3 Canonical, Cron Project, Debian 3 Ubuntu Linux, Cron, Debian Linux 2025-04-20 6.9 MEDIUM 6.7 MEDIUM
In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.
CVE-2016-6253 1 Netbsd 1 Netbsd 2025-04-20 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
mail.local in NetBSD versions 6.0 through 6.0.6, 6.1 through 6.1.5, and 7.0 allows local users to change ownership of or append data to arbitrary files on the target system via a symlink attack on the user mailbox.
CVE-2015-5700 1 Tug 1 Texlive 2025-04-20 5.6 MEDIUM 6.1 MEDIUM
mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.