CVE-2025-56383

Notepad++ v8.8.3 has a DLL hijacking vulnerability, which can replace the original DLL file to execute malicious code. NOTE: this is disputed by multiple parties because the behavior only occurs when a user installs the product into a directory tree that allows write access by arbitrary...

CVE-2025-58162

MobSF is a mobile application security testing tool used. In version 4.4.0, an authenticated user who uploaded a specially prepared one.a, can write arbitrary files to any directory writable by the user of the MobSF process. This issue has been patched in version 4.4.1...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-52991

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers default to using temporary build directories in a world-readable and world-writable location. This allows standard users...

CVE-2025-8941

A flaw was found in linux-pam. The pamnamespace module may improperly handle user-controlled paths, allowing local users to exploit symlink attacks and race conditions to elevate their privileges to root. This CVE provides a "complete" fix for CVE-2025-6020. Mitigation Disable the pamnamespace...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-52991

The Nix, Lix, and Guix package managers default to using temporary build directories in a world-readable and world-writable location. This allows standard users to deceive the package manager into using directories with pre-existing content, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or data...

CVE-2021-39500

Eyoucms 1.5.4 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Due to a lack of input data sanitizaton in param tpldir, filename, type, nid an attacker can inject "../" to escape and write file to writeable directories...

CVE-2025-32820

A vulnerability in SMA100 allows a remote authenticated attacker with SSLVPN user privileges can inject a path traversal sequence to make any directory on the SMA appliance writable...

Ensure That the Sticky Bit Is Set for Globally Writable Directories

The sticky bit of a common file is ignored by the kernel. The sticky bit shows up as the execute permission flag of a directory and is indicated with t. If the sticky bit set is for a directory, a user who is not root or the directory owner cannot delete files or directories in the directory,...

BIT-PYTHON-MIN-2022-26488

In Python before 3.10.3 on Windows, local users can gain privileges because the search path is inadequately secured. The installer may allow a local attacker to add user-writable directories to the system search path. To exploit, an administrator must have installed Python for all users and enabl...

CVE-2024-47563

A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC Security Monitor All versions V4.9.0. The affected application does not properly validate a file path that is supplied to an endpoint intended to create CSR files. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to create files in writable...

CVE-2024-45310 runc can be confused to create empty files/directories on the host

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. runc 1.1.13 and earlier, as well as 1.2.0-rc2 and earlier, can be tricked into creating empty files or directories in arbitrary locations in the host filesystem by sharing a volume between two containers an...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-30571

Libarchive through 3.6.2 can cause directories to have world-writable permissions. The umask call inside archivewritediskposix.c changes the umask of the whole process for a very short period of time; a race condition with another thread can lead to a permanent umask 0 setting. Such a race...

ALPINE-CVE-2021-3996

A logic error was found in the libmount library of util-linux in the function that allows an unprivileged user to unmount a FUSE filesystem. This flaw allows a local user on a vulnerable system to unmount other users' filesystems that are either world-writable themselves like /tmp or mounted in a...

CVE-2021-34409

It was discovered that the installation packages of the Zoom Client for Meetings for MacOS Standard and for IT Admin installation before version 5.2.0, Zoom Client Plugin for Sharing iPhone/iPad before version 5.2.0, and Zoom Rooms for Conference before version 5.1.0, copy pre- and post-...

CVE-2021-39500

Eyoucms 1.5.4 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Due to a lack of input data sanitizaton in param tpldir, filename, type, nid an attacker can inject "../" to escape and write file to writeable directories...

PT-2021-20890 · Red Hat · Ansible Automation Platform +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ansible Tower version 3.7 Ansible Automation Platform version 1.2 Description: A flaw was found in Ansible related to the setting of the ANSIBLE ASYNC DIR variable to a subdirectory of a world-writable directory, leading to a race condition o...

Microsoft Windows UAC Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Hi @ll, Microsoft still ships Windows with and lets it create user-writable directories below the "Windows" directory %SystemRoot%\ -- despite that, with exception of %SystemRoot%\Temp, they are all used to store DATA and SHOULD have been placed below %ProgramData% alias %SystemDrive%\ProgramData...

Microsoft Windows UAC Privilege Escalation

Hi @ll, Microsoft still ships Windows with and lets it create user-writable directories below the "Windows" directory %SystemRoot%\ -- despite that, with exception of %SystemRoot%\Temp, they are all used to store DATA and SHOULD have been placed below %ProgramData% alias %SystemDrive%\ProgramData...

CVE-2020-27568

Insecure File Permissions exist in Aviatrix Controller 5.3.1516. Several world writable files and directories were found in the controller resource. Note: All Aviatrix appliances are fully encrypted. This is an extra layer of security...

Windows Server 2012 SrClient DLL Hijacking

class MetasploitModule 'Windows Server 2012 SrClient DLL hijacking', 'Description' = %q All editions of Windows Server 2012 but not 2012 R2 are vulnerable to DLL hijacking due to the way TiWorker.exe will try to call the non-existent SrClient.dll file when Windows Update checks for updates. This...