CVE-2026-41433 OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: Privileged Java agent injection allows arbitrary host file overwrite via untrusted TMPDIR

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. From 0.4.0 to before 0.8.0, a flaw in the Java agent injection path allows a local attacker controlling a Java workload to overwrite arbitrary host files when Java injection is enabled and OBI is...

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: Privileged Java agent injection allows arbitrary host file overwrite via untrusted TMPDIR

Summary A flaw in the Java agent injection path allows a local attacker controlling a Java workload to overwrite arbitrary host files when Java injection is enabled and OBI is running with elevated privileges. The injector trusted TMPDIR from the target process and used unsafe file creation...

SunOS 5.7 Catman - Local Insecure tmp Symlink Clobber

SunOS 5.7 Catman - Local Insecure tmp Symlink Clobber !/usr/local/bin/perl -w The problem is catman creates files in /tmp insecurly. They are based on the PID of the catman process, catman will happily clobber any files that are symlinked to that file. The idea of this script is to watch the...