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CVE-2006-4248

Date: October 31, 2006

thttpd on Debian GNU/Linux, and possibly other distributions, allows local users to create or touch arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the start_thttpd temporary file.

Severity Score

8.4

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-4248

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396277

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22712

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20891

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4248

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1205

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-4248

Severity Score

8.4

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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