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CVE-2001-1593

Date: April 5, 2014

The tempname_ensure function in lib/routines.h in a2ps 4.14 and earlier, as used by the spy_user function and possibly other functions, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Severity Score

4.0

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1593

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2892

Url: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch

Url: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/253

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/257

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2001-1593

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/237

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2001-1593

Severity Score

4.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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