pypa/virtualenv · Security
Virtualenv Allows Symlink Attack on /tmp/
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-3jhc-wjqf-5f2c
- CVE ID
- CVE-2011-4617
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.
CWEs
- CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4617 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071638.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071643.html ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/2 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/4 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/5 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/commit/68075ad9ededf7df2c46d385f836c13b729de2ca ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228151935/https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/commits/8be37c509fe5 ↗
- https://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/changeset/8be37c509fe5 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/virtualenv/PYSEC-2011-23.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3jhc-wjqf-5f2c ↗