fabric/fabric · Security
Fabric vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-xwg2-qc6c-7c3q
- CVE ID
- CVE-2011-2185
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
Description
Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) a /tmp/fab.*.tar file or (2) certain other files in the top level of /tmp/.
CWEs
- CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2185 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003 ↗
- http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062534.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/5 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/12 ↗
- https://github.com/fabric/fabric/commit/3445b5653cd297039443110548fb3cab2e8e25af ↗
- https://github.com/fabric/fabric/commit/d7470d2db919ffcee80c245cf87e6d8d4ba6909c ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xwg2-qc6c-7c3q ↗