CVE-2014-1838

2014-03-1119:37:04

CWE-59

mitre

web.nvd.nist.gov

security

vulnerability

cve-2014-1838

logilab-commons

pdf

symlink attack

nvd

CVSS2

4.4

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

Affected configurations

Nvd

Node

opensuseopensuseMatch12.3

opensuseopensuseMatch13.1

Node

logilablogilab-commonRange≤0.60.0

VendorProductVersionCPE
opensuseopensuse12.3cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuseopensuse13.1cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
logilablogilab-common*cpe:2.3:a:logilab:logilab-common:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
opensuse	opensuse	12.3	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:::::::*
opensuse	opensuse	13.1	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*
logilab	logilab-common	*	cpe:2.3:a:logilab:logilab-common::::::::