SUSE CVE-2008-7271

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application aka the Help Server in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 the searchWord parameter to help/advanced/searchView.jsp or 2 the workingSet parameter in ...

SUSE CVE-2009-0317

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python language bindings for Nautilus nautilus-python allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySysSetArgv function CVE-2008-5983...

SUSE CVE-2010-3353

Cowbell 0.2.7.1 places a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory...

Path Traversal

git is vulnerable to Path Traversal. By feeding a crafted input to git apply, a path outside the working tree can be overwritten as the user who is running git apply...

SUSE CVE-2015-3887

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ProxyChains-NG before 4.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse libproxychains4.so library in the current working directory, which is referenced in the LDPRELOAD path...

SUSE CVE-2016-10374

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...

SUSE CVE-2020-15167

In Miller command line utility using the configuration file support introduced in version 5.9.0, it is possible for an attacker to cause Miller to run arbitrary code by placing a malicious .mlrrc file in the working directory. See linked GitHub Security Advisory for complete details. A fix is rea...

SUSE CVE-2020-24742

An issue has been fixed in Qt versions 5.14.0 where QPluginLoader attempts to load plugins relative to the working directory, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted files...

SUSE CVE-2020-28010

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Out-of-bounds Write because the main function, while setuid root, copies the current working directory pathname into a buffer that is too small on some common platforms...

SUSE CVE-2021-36770

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in the current working directory that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm 3.05...

CVE-2023-23946 Git's `git apply` overwriting paths outside the working tree

Git, a revision control system, is vulnerable to path traversal prior to versions 2.39.2, 2.38.4, 2.37.6, 2.36.5, 2.35.7, 2.34.7, 2.33.7, 2.32.6, 2.31.7, and 2.30.8. By feeding a crafted input to git apply, a path outside the working tree can be overwritten as the user who is running git apply. A...

USN-5871-1 git vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain repositories. An attacker could use this issue to make Git uses its local clone optimization even when using a non-local transport. CVE-2023-22490 Joern Schneeweisz discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain commands. An attacker could...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23946

Git, a revision control system, is vulnerable to path traversal prior to versions 2.39.2, 2.38.4, 2.37.6, 2.36.5, 2.35.7, 2.34.7, 2.33.7, 2.32.6, 2.31.7, and 2.30.8. By feeding a crafted input to git apply, a path outside the working tree can be overwritten as the user who is running git apply. A...

git -- Local clone-based data exfiltration with non-local transports

git team reports: Using a specially-crafted repository, Git can be tricked into using its local clone optimization even when using a non-local transport. Though Git will abort local clones whose source $GITDIR/objects directory contains symbolic links c.f., CVE-2022-39253, the objects directory...

git -- "git apply" overwriting paths outside the working tree

git team reports: By feeding a crafted input to "git apply", a path outside the working tree can be overwritten as the user who is running "git apply"...

git: gitattributes parsing integer overflow

A flaw was found in Git, a distributed revision control system. When parsing gitattributes, a mechanism to allow defining attributes for paths, multiple integer overflows can occur when there is a huge number of path patterns, attributes for a single pattern, or declared attribute names. These...

git: gitattributes parsing integer overflow

A flaw was found in Git, a distributed revision control system. When parsing gitattributes, a mechanism to allow defining attributes for paths, multiple integer overflows can occur when there is a huge number of path patterns, attributes for a single pattern, or declared attribute names. These...

git: gitattributes parsing integer overflow

A flaw was found in Git, a distributed revision control system. When parsing gitattributes, a mechanism to allow defining attributes for paths, multiple integer overflows can occur when there is a huge number of path patterns, attributes for a single pattern, or declared attribute names. These...

Cyberthreats facing UK finance sector "a national security threat"

As the reports covering all of 2022 start trickling in, we can see that cybercrime and other types of fraud had a major impact last year. Take for example the 2022 half year fraud update by UK Finance, which tells us that criminals stole a total of £609.8 million roughly $750 million through...

emacs -- arbitary shell command execution vulnerability of ctags

lu4nx reports: GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the ctags program. For example, a victim may use the "ctags " command suggeste...