CVE-2020-28007

Exim 4.x prior to 4.94.2 is affected by CVE-2020-28007, which allows local privilege escalation by exploiting a symlink/hard-link attack in the log directory where Exim runs as root and the directory is owned by a non-root user. The root-owned files can be overwritten from a local attacker, enabl...

CVE-2019-17190

A Local Privilege Escalation issue was discovered in Avast Secure Browser 76.0.1659.101. The vulnerability is due to an insecure ACL set by the AvastBrowserUpdate.exe which is running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM when AvastSecureBrowser.exe checks for new updates. When the update check is triggered, th...

PT-2020-9879 · Avast · Avast Secure Browser

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Avast Secure Browser version 76.0.1659.101 Description: A Local Privilege Escalation issue was discovered due to an insecure ACL set by the AvastBrowserUpdate.exe when AvastSecureBrowser.exe checks for new updates. The elevated process cleans...

CVE-2019-5674

NVIDIA GeForce Experience before 3.18 contains a vulnerability when ShadowPlay or GameStream is enabled. When an attacker has access to the system and creates a hard link, the software does not check for hard link attacks. This behavior may lead to code execution, denial of service, or escalation...

CVE-2016-10089

A vulnerability was found in Nagios 4.2.4, and earlier, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641. Mitigation This flaw, and others like it, are mitigated by enabling hardlink and symlink protections. These...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

github.com/docker/docker is vulnerable to arbitrary file writes and remote code execution RCE. Attackers can perform these attacks using a hard link image attack in an image archive or through a symlink attack...

Hardcoded credentials

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641...

CVE-2016-10089

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641...

CVE-2016-10089

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641...

CVE-2016-10089

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641...

CVE-2016-10089

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641...

CVE-2016-10089

Technical details are not publicly available in the provided documents.

CVE-2016-5847

SAP SAPCAR allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via a hard link attack on files extracted from an archive, possibly related to SAP Security Note 2327384...

CVE-2016-5847

SAP SAPCAR allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via a hard link attack on files extracted from an archive, possibly related to SAP Security Note 2327384...

CVE-2016-5847

CVE-2016-5847 describes a local privilege-escalation in SAPCAR (SAPCAR archive tool) caused by a TOCTOU race condition when changing permissions of extracted files. A local attacker who can place files in the extraction directory can replace an extracted file with a hard link to another user’s fi...

Apport Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apport is a toolkit for Ubuntu that collects and gives feedback on error messages information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in versions prior to Apport 2.19, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or...

CVE-2015-1338

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

Hardcoded credentials

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

CVE-2015-1338

CVE-2015-1338 affects the Apport crash-dump handling in Linux environments (kernel_crashdump) prior to version 2.19. A local attacker could exploit insecure crash dump file handling to cause a denial of service via disk consumption or potentially elevate privileges through symlink or hard link at...

CVE-2015-1338

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...