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CVE-2011-2185

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Date: July 26, 2011

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/.

Language: Python

Severity Score

4.9

Related Resources (11)

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/12

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062534.html

Url: https://github.com/fabric/fabric/commit/d7470d2db919ffcee80c245cf87e6d8d4ba6909c

Url: https://github.com/fabric/fabric/commit/3445b5653cd297039443110548fb3cab2e8e25af

Url: https://github.com/fabric/fabric

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2185

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/5

Url: http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-2185

Severity Score

4.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 1.1.0

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.4
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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