4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
15.6%
A vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing, a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.
[
{
"vendor": "Red Hat",
"product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
"collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
"packageName": "nano",
"defaultStatus": "unknown",
"cpes": [
"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
]
},
{
"vendor": "Red Hat",
"product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
"collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
"packageName": "nano",
"defaultStatus": "unknown",
"cpes": [
"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
]
},
{
"vendor": "Red Hat",
"product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
"collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
"packageName": "nano",
"defaultStatus": "affected",
"cpes": [
"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
]
},
{
"vendor": "Red Hat",
"product": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
"collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
"packageName": "nano",
"defaultStatus": "affected",
"cpes": [
"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
]
}
]
4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
15.6%