Chef Software Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Chef Software is a set of server application configuration tools written in Ruty and Erlang by Chef Software. mixlib-archive is one of the gem extraction archive tools. A directory traversal vulnerability exists in Chef Software in versions 0.3.0 and earlier of mixlib-archive. A remote attacker c...

CVE-2017-7549: Insecure Temporary File

A flaw was found in instack-undercloud 7.2.0 as packaged in Red Hat OpenStack Platform Pike, 6.1.0 as packaged in Red Hat OpenStack Platform Oacta, 5.3.0 as packaged in Red Hat OpenStack Newton, where pre-install and security policy scripts used insecure temporary files. A local user could exploi...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: instack-undercloud security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for instack-undercloud is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 Ocata. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Cisco IOS XE Software Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

Cisco ASR 920 Series Aggregation Services Routers are Cisco's ASR 920 series of multifunction routers.Cisco IOS XE Software is one of the operating systems dedicated to network devices. A security vulnerability exists in the USB-modem code of the IOS XE Software in the Cisco ASR 920 Series...

Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco ASR 920 Series Routers Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the USB-modem code of Cisco IOS XE Software running on Cisco ASR 920 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper inpu...

RubyGems < 2.6.13 - Arbitrary File Overwrite Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits There is no check for name field in metadata.gz. By assigning a maliciously crafted string like ../../../../../any/where to the field, an attacker can create an arbitrary file out of the directory of the gem, or even replace an existing file...

RubyGems 2.6.13 - Arbitrary File Overwrite

RubyGems 2.6.13 - Arbitrary File Overwrite There is no check for name field in metadata.gz. By assigning a maliciously crafted string like ../../../../../any/where to the field, an attacker can create an arbitrary file out of the directory of the gem, or even replace an existing file with a...

RubyGems < 2.6.13 - Arbitrary File Overwrite

There is no check for name field in metadata.gz. By assigning a maliciously crafted string like ../../../../../any/where to the field, an attacker can create an arbitrary file out of the directory of the gem, or even replace an existing file with a malicious file. Proof of Concept 1: Create a fil...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-0901

RubyGems version 2.6.12 and earlier fails to validate specification names, allowing a maliciously crafted gem to potentially overwrite any file on the filesystem...

Unspecified vulnerability in mktexlsr (CNVD-2017-30561)

mktexlsr is a library for generating catalogs. A security vulnerability exists in mktexlsr revision 36855 and versions prior to revision 36626. A local attacker can overwrite arbitrary files with the help of symbolic links...

FlightGear Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

FlightGear is an open source multi-platform flight simulator. The main goal is to create a cutting-edge flight simulator framework for the academic research field, which can also be extended to flight training, flight simulation, flight simulation games, etc. FGLogger subsystem is one of the logg...

CVE-2017-9640: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

A Path Traversal issue was discovered in Automated Logic Corporation ALC ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web prior to 6.5; ALC WebCTRL, SiteScan Web 6.1 and prior; ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu 6.0 and prior; ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web 5.5 and prior; and ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web 5.2 and prior. An...

PT-2018-5196

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Syncthing versions 0.14.33 and older Description The issue allows for symlink traversal, resulting in arbitrary file overwrite. This occurs because Syncthing erroneously versions symlinks when they are deleted. If a directory is then created...

CVE-2016-4456: Improper Input Validation

The "GNUTLSKEYLOGFILE" environment variable in gnutls 3.4.12 allows remote attackers to overwrite and corrupt arbitrary files in the filesystem...

NTP.org 'ntpd' ':config' Command Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

NTP.org SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:ntp:ntp"; ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.811253";...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000026

Chef Software's mixlib-archive versions 0.3.0 and older are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using ".." in tar archive entries...

CVE-2017-1000026

CVE-2017-1000026 affects Chef Software’s Ruby library mixlib-archive (versions ≤ 0.3.0). A directory traversal flaw allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by placing .. in tar archive entries. The vulnerability impact is demonstrated in multiple advisories; Debian fixed it in ruby-mixlib...

PT-2017-17932

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.2 Firefox versions prior to 54 Description The issue allows an unprivileged user to invoke the Mozilla Maintenance Service and overwrite arbitrary files with junk data using the Mozilla Windows Updater, which h...

[ASA-201705-20] lynis: arbitrary file overwrite

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201705-20 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2017-05-22 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-8108 Package : lynis Type : arbitrary file overwrite Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-278 Summary ======= The package lynis before version...

CVE-2016-10374: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as...