CVE-2023-1314

A vulnerability has been discovered in cloudflared's installer = 2023.3.0 for Windows 32-bits devices that allows a local attacker with no administrative permissions to escalate their privileges on the affected device. This vulnerability exists because the MSI installer used by cloudflared relied...

CVE-2021-34408

The Zoom Client for Meetings for Windows in all versions before version 5.3.2 writes log files to a user writable directory as a privileged user during the installation or update of the client. This could allow for potential privilege escalation if a link was created between the user writable...

CVE-2021-40981

ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite before 4.2.10 allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse file in the publicly writable %PROGRAMDATA%\ASUS\GamingCenterLib directory...

CVE-2020-6024

Check Point SmartConsole before R80.10 Build 185, R80.20 Build 119, R80.30 before Build 94, R80.40 before Build 415, and R81 before Build 548 were vulnerable to a possible local privilege escalation due to running executables from a directory with write access to all authenticated users...

CVE-2020-27384

The Gw2-64.exe in Guild Wars 2 launcher version 106916 suffers from an elevation of privileges vulnerability which can be used by an "Authenticated User" to modify the existing executable file with a binary of his choice. The vulnerability exist due to the improper permissions, with the 'F' flag...

CVE-2005-1856

The CD-burning feature in backup-manager 0.5.8 and earlier uses a fixed filename in a world-writable directory for logging, which allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack...

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...

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...

Exploit for Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Apache Tomcat

CVE-2025-24813 Apache Tomcat RCE PoC Proof of Concept PoC ex...

CVE-2025-27591

A flaw was found in the Below service. This vulnerability allows local, unprivileged users to escalate to root privileges via symlink attacks exploiting a world-writable directory at /var/log/below. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do...

RUSTSEC-2025-0149 World Writable Directory in /var/log/below Allows Local Privilege Escalation

Below is a tool for recording and displaying system data like hardware utilization and cgroup information on Linux. Symlink Attack in /var/log/below/errorroot.log Below's systemd service runs with full root privileges. It attempts to create a world-writable directory in /var/log/below. Even if th...

Below has Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Impact A privilege escalation vulnerability existed in the Below service prior to v0.9.0 due to the creation of a world-writable directory at /var/log/below. This could have allowed local unprivileged users to escalate to root privileges through symlink attacks that manipulate files such as...

CVE-2025-27591

A privilege escalation vulnerability existed in the Below service prior to v0.9.0 due to the creation of a world-writable directory at /var/log/below. This could have allowed local unprivileged users to escalate to root privileges through symlink attacks that manipulate files such as /etc/shadow...

CVE-2025-27591

A privilege escalation vulnerability existed in the Below service prior to v0.9.0 due to the creation of a world-writable directory at /var/log/below. This could have allowed local unprivileged users to escalate to root privileges through symlink attacks that manipulate files such as /etc/shadow...

CVE-2025-27591

CVE-2025-27591 – Below privilege escalation : Prior to v0.9.0, the Below service creates a world-writable directory at /var/log/below and writes a world-writable log file, enabling local unprivileged users to perform a symlink attack (e.g., replacing error_root.log with a link to /etc/passwd). Th...

CVE-2025-27591

A privilege escalation vulnerability existed in the Below service prior to v0.9.0 due to the creation of a world-writable directory at /var/log/below. This could have allowed local unprivileged users to escalate to root privileges through symlink attacks that manipulate files such as /etc/shadow...

github.com/golang/glog: Vulnerability when creating log files in github.com/golang/glog

A flaw was found in glog, a logging library. This vulnerability allows an unprivileged attacker to overwrite sensitive files via a symbolic link planted in a widely writable directory, exploiting the log file path predictability...

CVE-2020-15264

The Boxstarter installer before version 2.13.0 configures C:\ProgramData\Boxstarter to be in the system-wide PATH environment variable. However, this directory is writable by normal, unprivileged users. To exploit the vulnerability, place a DLL in this directory that a privileged service is looki...

AZL-56379 CVE-2024-45339 affecting package glog 0.3.5-16

When logs are written to a widely-writable directory the default, an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink and overwrite that...

AZL-56066 CVE-2024-45339 affecting package vitess for versions less than 19.0.4-4

When logs are written to a widely-writable directory the default, an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink and overwrite that...