KTextEditor Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

KTextEditor is an editor that provides advanced plain text editing features in KDE Frameworks. A security vulnerability exists in KTextEditor versions 5.34.0 through 5.45.0, which stems from the failure of KTextEditor's kauthktexteditorhelper service to properly handle temporary files. The...

Privilege escalation

An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauthktexteditorhelper service as utilized in the Kate text editor can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one use...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10361

An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauthktexteditorhelper service as utilized in the Kate text editor can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one use...

CVE-2018-10361

An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauthktexteditorhelper service as utilized in the Kate text editor can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one use...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10361

An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauthktexteditorhelper service as utilized in the Kate text editor can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one use...

CVE-2018-10361

CVE-2018-10361 affects KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0 (used by Kate). Insecure handling of temporary files in the kauth_ktexteditor_helper service can let an unprivileged local user gain root privileges via a symlink attack when writing a file into another user’s directory. Impact is local pri...

CVE-2018-10361

An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauthktexteditorhelper service as utilized in the Kate text editor can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one use...

policycoreutils: Relabelling of symbolic links in /tmp and /var/tmp change the context of their target instead

Context relabeling of filesystems is vulnerable to symbolic link attack, allowing a local, unprivileged malicious entity to change the SELinux context of an arbitrary file to a context with few restrictions. This only happens when the relabeling process is done, usually when taking SELinux state...

Code injection

The main function in androidmain.cpp in thermald allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid...

CVE-2014-2312

The main function in androidmain.cpp in thermald allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid...

CVE-2014-2312

The main function in androidmain.cpp in thermald allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid...

CVE-2014-2312

Thermald contains a local-privilege vulnerability in android_main.cpp that allows a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid to overwrite arbitrary files. Impact is arbitrary file write (I = HIGH) with local access and no user interaction required. The connected sources confirm the affected software (...

PT-2018-4199 · Intel +1 · Thermal +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: thermald affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid, potentially leading to unauthorized data modification. This is due to a flaw in the main...

File Permission Manipulation Via Symlink Attack

hadoop-common-yarn is vulnerable to file permission manipulation. Using a symlink attack in a public tar archive, attackers can change the permissions on files to be world-readable...

Arbitrary File Overwrite Through Symlink Attack

terminal-share is vulnerable to arbitrary file overwrite through symlink attacks. The vulnerability exists due to the creation of the hardcoded /tmp/test11 file found in index.js. This allows an unprivileged user of the shared machine to overwrite a privileged file by creating a symbolic link fil...

CVE-2018-1196

Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service. The script included with Spring Boot 1.5.9 and earlier and 2.0.0.M1 through 2.0.0.M7 is susceptible to a symlink attack which allows the "runuser" to overwrite and...

Code injection

Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service. The script included with Spring Boot 1.5.9 and earlier and 2.0.0.M1 through 2.0.0.M7 is susceptible to a symlink attack which allows the "runuser" to overwrite and...

CVE-2018-1196

Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service. The script included with Spring Boot 1.5.9 and earlier and 2.0.0.M1 through 2.0.0.M7 is susceptible to a symlink attack which allows the "runuser" to overwrite and...

CVE-2018-1196

Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service. The script included with Spring Boot 1.5.9 and earlier and 2.0.0.M1 through 2.0.0.M7 is susceptible to a symlink attack which allows the "runuser" to overwrite and...

CVE-2018-1196

The CVE-2018-1196 issue affects Spring Boot when using the embedded launch script to run as a systemd/init.d service. The root cause is a symlink attack on the run_user, enabling overwriting/taking ownership of files on the same system if the app is installed as a service and the run_user has she...