CPANSA-Clipboard-2014-5509: Clipboard vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2018-01-08T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2018-01-08T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 5.5 Severity Medium
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

clipedit in the Clipboard module for Perl allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/clipedit$$.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-5509

Vulnerability Description

clipedit in the Clipboard module for Perl allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/clipedit$$.

Weakness CWE-59 : Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Clipboard less than 0.16
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N 5.5 Medium
2.0 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P 3.6 Low
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Jan 8 00:00:00 2018 First release

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