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CVE-2016-9956

Date: February 22, 2017

The route manager in FlightGear before 2016.4.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted Nasal script.

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (14)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9956

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DB3B5XBB2NL2O2U4WNYGH7ZL45Q4UHGG/

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/11

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9956

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/10

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/16/5

Url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2016.4/

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4588-1/

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94945

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9956

Url: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ci/280cd523686fbdb175d50417266d2487a8ce67d2/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZKAN7V6UOHSRFWO567XMN4O6WXTSL32/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-9956

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Access Control

CWE-284

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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