PSF-2025-7

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

Summary: CVE-2024-52561 is a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Parallels Desktop for Mac 20.1.1 (build 55740). During snapshot deletion, the root service (prl_disp_service) verifies and may change ownership of files under the Snapshot directory. Attackers can exploit a symlink to replace the ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23394

A UNIX Symbolic Link Symlink Following vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed cyrus-imapd allows escalation from cyrus to root.This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed cyrus-imapd before 3.8.4-2.1...

CVE-2022-38730

Docker Desktop for Windows before 4.6 allows attackers to overwrite any file through the windowscontainers/start dockerBackendV2 API by controlling the data-root field inside the DaemonJSON field in the WindowsContainerStartRequest class. This allows exploiting a symlink vulnerability in...

CVE-2020-9682

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 5.1 and earlier have a symlink vulnerability vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary file system write...

CVE-2020-9670

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application versions 5.1 and earlier have a symlink vulnerability vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to privilege escalation...

CVE-2020-15075

OpenVPN Connect installer for macOS version 3.2.6 and older may corrupt system critical files it should not have access via symlinks in /tmp...

CVE-2020-25031

checkinstall 1.6.2, when used to create a package that contains a symlink, may trigger the creation of a mode 0777 executable file...

CVE-2020-0730

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows User Profile Service ProfSvc improperly handles symlinks, aka 'Windows User Profile Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2010-4817

pithos before 0.3.5 allows overwrite of arbitrary files via symlinks...

CVE-2019-1454

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows User Profile Service ProfSvc improperly handles symlinks, aka 'Windows User Profile Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2018-20990

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive...

CVE-2013-0979

lockdownd in Lockdown in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 does not properly consider file types during the permission-setting step of a backup restoration, which allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a backup that contains a pathname with a symlink...

CVE-1999-0735

KDE K-Mail allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack in temporary user directories...

Exploit for Link Following in Apple Ipados

PoC Conceptual CVE-2024-44258: Vulnerabilidad de Symlink en iO...

CVE-2025-43853

The WebAssembly Micro Runtime's WAMR iwasm package is the executable binary built with WAMR VMcore which supports WebAssembly System Interface WASI and command line interface. Anyone running WAMR up to and including version 2.2.0 or WAMR built with libc-uvwasi on Windows is affected by a symlink...

CVE-2025-43853

The WebAssembly Micro Runtime's WAMR iwasm package is the executable binary built with WAMR VMcore which supports WebAssembly System Interface WASI and command line interface. Anyone running WAMR up to and including version 2.2.0 or WAMR built with libc-uvwasi on Windows is affected by a symlink...

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to UNIX Symbolic Link Symlink Following via the symlink creation process. An attacker can create or modify files outside of the intended sandboxed directory by creating a symlink that points to an external directory or file. Note: This is...

CVE-2025-43853 iwasm vulnerable to filesystem sandbox escape with symlink when using uvwasi feature

The WebAssembly Micro Runtime's WAMR iwasm package is the executable binary built with WAMR VMcore which supports WebAssembly System Interface WASI and command line interface. Anyone running WAMR up to and including version 2.2.0 or WAMR built with libc-uvwasi on Windows is affected by a symlink...

CVE-2025-43853 iwasm vulnerable to filesystem sandbox escape with symlink when using uvwasi feature

The WebAssembly Micro Runtime's WAMR iwasm package is the executable binary built with WAMR VMcore which supports WebAssembly System Interface WASI and command line interface. Anyone running WAMR up to and including version 2.2.0 or WAMR built with libc-uvwasi on Windows is affected by a symlink...