World Writable Permissions

augeas is vulnerable to world writable permissions. The vulnerability exists as the transformsave function in transform.c in Augeas 1.0.0 through 1.1.0 does not properly calculate the permission values when the umask contains a "7," which causes world-writable permissions to be used for new files...

Amazon Linux AMI : augeas (ALAS-2013-250)

Multiple flaws were found in the way Augeas handled configuration files when updating them. An application using Augeas to update configuration files in a directory that is writable to by a different user for example, an application running as root that is updating files in a directory owned by a...