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CVE-2008-1570

Date: March 31, 2008

Race condition in the create_lockpath function in policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files by creating the LOCKPATH directory, then modifying it after the symbolic link check occurs. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1569.

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-1570
http://www.osvdb.org/43888
http://secunia.com/advisories/29738
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41570
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1570
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-1570

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2

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