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CVE-2009-1215

Date: April 1, 2009

Race condition in GNU screen 4.0.3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/screen-exchange temporary file.

Severity Score

2.9

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492104

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/25/7

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34521

Url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/315993

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49887

Url: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25296

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1215

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521123

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-1215

Severity Score

2.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Race Conditions

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	2.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	1.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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