Vulnerabilities > Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2022-11-23 CVE-2009-1143 Link Following vulnerability in VMWare Open-Vm-Tools 2009.03.18154848
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848.
local
high complexity
vmware CWE-59
7.0
2022-11-07 CVE-2022-44747 Link Following vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling.
local
low complexity
acronis CWE-59
7.8
2022-11-01 CVE-2022-32905 Link Following vulnerability in Apple Macos
This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.
local
low complexity
apple CWE-59
7.8
2022-10-29 CVE-2022-41973 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
multipath-tools 0.7.7 through 0.9.x before 0.9.2 allows local users to obtain root access, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2022-41974.
local
low complexity
opensvc fedoraproject debian CWE-59
7.8
2022-10-19 CVE-2022-39253 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
Git is an open source, scalable, distributed revision control system.
local
low complexity
git-scm fedoraproject apple debian CWE-59
5.5
2022-10-10 CVE-2022-42725 Link Following vulnerability in Linuxmint Warpinator
Warpinator through 1.2.14 allows access outside of an intended directory, as demonstrated by symbolic directory links.
network
low complexity
linuxmint CWE-59
7.5
2022-09-28 CVE-2022-40710 Link Following vulnerability in Trendmicro Deep Security Agent 20.0
A link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Deep Security 20 and Cloud One - Workload Security Agent for Windows could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations.
local
low complexity
trendmicro CWE-59
7.8
2022-09-19 CVE-2022-34893 Link Following vulnerability in Trendmicro Security 12.0
Trend Micro Security 2022 (consumer) has a link following vulnerability where an attacker with lower privileges could manipulate a mountpoint which could lead to escalation of privilege on an affected machine.
local
low complexity
trendmicro CWE-59
7.8
2022-09-19 CVE-2022-40143 Link Following vulnerability in Trendmicro Apex ONE 2019
A link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service servers could allow a local attacker to abuse an insecure directory that could allow a low-privileged user to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
local
low complexity
trendmicro CWE-59
7.3
2022-09-15 CVE-2022-39215 Link Following vulnerability in Tauri
Tauri is a framework for building binaries for all major desktop platforms.
network
low complexity
tauri CWE-59
5.8