Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability in llama-index-core

Description The getcachedir function in llama-index-core uses a predictable, hardcoded directory path /tmp/llamaindex on Linux systems without proper security controls. This vulnerability allows attackers on multi-user systems to steal proprietary models, poison cached embeddings, or conduct...

Symlink Attack

Overview std/os is a Go standard library package std/os Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. Go Vulnerability Report:os.OpenFilepath, os.OCREATE|OEXCL behaved differently on Unix and Windows systems when the target path was a dangling symlink. On Unix systems,...

Symlink Attack

Overview std/syscall is a Go standard library package std/syscall Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. Go Vulnerability Report:os.OpenFilepath, os.OCREATE|OEXCL behaved differently on Unix and Windows systems when the target path was a dangling symlink. On Unix...

BIT-MARIADB-MIN-2020-7221

mysqlinstalldb in MariaDB 10.4.7 through 10.4.11 allows privilege escalation from the mysql user account to root because chown and chmod are performed unsafely, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a chmod 04755 of authpamtooldir/authpamtool. NOTE: this does not affect the Oracle MySQL product,...

CVE-2024-52561

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 build 55740. When a snapshot of a virtual machine is deleted, a root service verifies and modifies the ownership of the snapshot files. By using a symlink, an attacker can change...

SUSE CVE-2025-4330

Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall or...

CVE-2024-52561

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 build 55740. When a snapshot of a virtual machine is deleted, a root service verifies and modifies the ownership of the snapshot files. By using a symlink, an attacker can change...

CVE-2024-52561

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 build 55740. When a snapshot of a virtual machine is deleted, a root service verifies and modifies the ownership of the snapshot files. By using a symlink, an attacker can change...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2025-3dc53b7f76)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2023-33865

RenderDoc before 1.27 allows local privilege escalation via a symlink attack. It relies on the /tmp/RenderDoc directory regardless of ownership...

CVE-2022-34292

Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6.0 allows attackers to overwrite any file through a symlink attack on the hyperv/create dockerBackendV2 API by controlling the DataFolder parameter for DockerDesktop.vhdx, a similar issue to CVE-2022-31647...

CVE-2021-30463

VestaCP through 0.9.8-24 allows attackers to gain privileges by creating symlinks to files for which they lack permissions. After reading the RKEY value from user.conf under the /usr/local/vesta/data/users/admin directory, the admin password can be changed via a /reset/?action=confirm=admin= URI...

CVE-2021-36983

replay-sorcery-kms in Replay Sorcery 0.6.0 allows a local attacker to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/replay-sorcery or /tmp/replay-sorcery/device.sock...

CVE-2021-20153

Trendnet AC2600 TEW-827DRU version 2.08B01 contains a symlink vulnerability in the bittorrent functionality. If enabled, the bittorrent functionality is vulnerable to a symlink attack that could lead to remote code execution on the device. If an end user inserts a flash drive with a malicious...

CVE-2021-26720

avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh in the Debian avahi package through 0.8-4 is executed as root via /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, and allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service or create arbitrary empty files via a symlink attack on files under /run/avahi-daemon. NOTE: this only affects th...

CVE-2021-27117

An issue was discovered in file profile.go in function GetCPUProfile in beego through 2.0.2, allows attackers to launch symlink attacks locally...

CVE-2021-38570

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1.4. It allows attackers to delete arbitrary files during uninstallation via a symlink...

CVE-2020-7040

storeBackup.pl in storeBackup through 3.5 relies on the /tmp/storeBackup.lock pathname, which allows symlink attacks that possibly lead to privilege escalation. Local users can also create a plain file named /tmp/storeBackup.lock to block use of storeBackup until an admin manually deletes that fi...

CVE-2020-28007

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. Because Exim operates as root in the log directory owned by a non-root user, a symlink or hard link attack allows overwriting critical root-owned files anywhere on the filesystem...

CVE-2020-13833

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O8.x, P9.0, and Q10.0 software. The system area allows arbitrary file overwrites via a symlink attack. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-17183 June 2020...