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CVE-2007-5718

Date: October 30, 2007

vobcopy 0.5.14 allows local users to append data to an arbitrary file, or create an arbitrary new file, via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/vobcopy.bla or (2) /tmp/vobcopy_0.5.14.log temporary file.

Severity Score

6.2

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2007-5718

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5718

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26233

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27420

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448319

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38172

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-11.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29259

Url: http://osvdb.org/41997

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2007-5718

Severity Score

6.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.2
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	NONE
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