3.3 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The (1) configure and (2) config.guess scripts in GNU troff (aka groff)
1.20.1 on Openwall GNU/*/Linux (aka Owl) improperly create temporary files
upon a failure of the mktemp function, which makes it easier for local
users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary
file.
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | only exploitable during the build Debian CVE tracker lists this as fixed in 1.20.1-5, but it is not |