6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes,
allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a
symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files
that are copied to the same destination.
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | Ubuntu coreutils should not be affected. This problem is many years old. busybox 1.6.1 and 1.9.0 known not to be affected |