Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-26235

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In Rust time crate from version 0.2.7 and before version 0.2.23, unix-like operating systems may segfault due to dereferencing a dangling pointer in specific...

Periodic Script Persistence

This module will achieve persistence by writing a script to the /etc/periodic directory. According to The Art of Mac Malware no such malware species persist in this manner 2024. This payload requires root privileges to run. This module can be run on BSD, OSX or Arch Linux. Module Options msf use...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-27148

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Gradle is a build automation tool, and its native-platform tool provides Java bindings for native APIs. On Unix-like systems, the system temporary directory can...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-21290

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers &...

PT-2025-28647

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Git versions 2.43.7 through 2.50.1 Description Git contains a link following vulnerability stemming from inconsistent handling of carriage return characters in configuration files. This flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via...

Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2025-324...

PHP Exec

Execute a PHP payload as an OS command from a Posix-compatible shell Module Options msf use payload/cmd/unix/php/meterpreterreversetcp msf payloadmeterpreterreversetcp show actions ...actions... msf payloadmeterpreterreversetcp set ACTION msf payloadmeterpreterreversetcp show options ...show and...

CVE-2022-41954

MPXJ is an open source library to read and write project plans from a variety of file formats and databases. On Unix-like operating systems not Windows or macos, MPXJ's use of File.createTempFile.. results in temporary files being created with the permissions -rw-r--r--. This means that any other...

CVE-2021-22572

On unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. The root cause is File.createTempFile creates files in the the system temporary directory with world readable permissions. Any sensitive information written to theses files is visible to all other loc...

CVE-2021-21331

The Java client for the Datadog API before version 1.0.0-beta.9 has a local information disclosure of sensitive information downloaded via the API using the API Client. The Datadog API is executed on a unix-like system with multiple users. The API is used to download a file containing sensitive...

Advisory ROSA-SA-2025-2807

Software: less 530 OS: ROSA Virtualization 3.0 packageevrstring: less-530-3.rv30 CVE-ID: CVE-2022-48624 BDU-ID: 2024-04438 CVE-Crit: MEDIUM CVE-DESC.: A vulnerability in the closealtfile filename.c function for UNIX-like Less text terminals is related to the skipping of Shellquote calls for...

CVE-2025-27148

Gradle is a build automation tool, and its native-platform tool provides Java bindings for native APIs. On Unix-like systems, the system temporary directory can be created with open permissions that allow multiple users to create and delete files within it. This library initialization could be...

CVE-2025-27148 Gradle vulnerable to local privilege escalation through system temporary directory

Gradle is a build automation tool, and its native-platform tool provides Java bindings for native APIs. On Unix-like systems, the system temporary directory can be created with open permissions that allow multiple users to create and delete files within it. This library initialization could be...

CVE-2025-27148

Gradle is a build automation tool, and its native-platform tool provides Java bindings for native APIs. On Unix-like systems, the system temporary directory can be created with open permissions that allow multiple users to create and delete files within it. This library initialization could be...

CVE-2025-27148: Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions

Gradle is a build automation tool, and its native-platform tool provides Java bindings for native APIs. On Unix-like systems, the system temporary directory can be created with open permissions that allow multiple users to create and delete files within it. This library initialization could be...

CVE-2023-43123

On unix-like systems, the temporary directory is shared between all user. As such, writing to this directory using APIs that do not explicitly set the file/directory permissions can lead to information disclosure. Of note, this does not impact modern MacOS Operating Systems. The method...

RIB Revalidation DoS

The vulnerability of the RIB Revalidation component of the networking routing implementation software on Unix-like systems is related to errors in resource release. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures...

ROS-20250121-04

A vulnerability in the RIB Revalidation component of a software tool that implements network routing on Unix-like FRRouting systems is related to the launch of RIB reanalysis for FRR routers. Unix-like FRRouting systems is related to triggering RIB reanalysis for FRR routers, using RTR, causing...

PT-2025-4606

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gitoxide versions prior to 0.17.0 Description The issue arises from the gix-worktree-state specifying 0777 permissions when checking out executable files. This is intended to be restricted by the umask, but one of the strategies used to set...

CVE-2024-53256

Rizin is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. rizin.c still had an old snippet of code which suffered a command injection due the usage of rzcorecmdf to invoke the command m which was removed in v0.1.x. A malicious binary defining bclass part of RzBinInfo is execute...