CVE-2016-3992

2016-07-2617:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.2%

JSON

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331