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

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2021-04-26 CVE-2021-27851 Link Following vulnerability in GNU Guix
A security vulnerability that can lead to local privilege escalation has been found in ’guix-daemon’.
local
low complexity
gnu CWE-59
5.5
2021-04-13 CVE-2021-28321 Link Following vulnerability in Microsoft products
Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
local
low complexity
microsoft CWE-59
7.8
2021-04-08 CVE-2021-30463 Link Following vulnerability in Vestacp Control Panel
VestaCP through 0.9.8-24 allows attackers to gain privileges by creating symlinks to files for which they lack permissions.
local
low complexity
vestacp CWE-59
7.8
2021-04-07 CVE-2020-36314 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.38.0, as used by GNOME Shell and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations.
local
low complexity
gnome fedoraproject CWE-59
3.9
2021-04-01 CVE-2021-28163 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
In Eclipse Jetty 9.4.32 to 9.4.38, 10.0.0.beta2 to 10.0.1, and 11.0.0.beta2 to 11.0.1, if a user uses a webapps directory that is a symlink, the contents of the webapps directory is deployed as a static webapp, inadvertently serving the webapps themselves and anything else that might be in that directory.
network
low complexity
eclipse fedoraproject apache netapp oracle CWE-59
2.7
2021-03-30 CVE-2020-15075 Link Following vulnerability in Openvpn Connect
OpenVPN Connect installer for macOS version 3.2.6 and older may corrupt system critical files it should not have access via symlinks in /tmp.
local
low complexity
openvpn CWE-59
7.1
2021-03-29 CVE-2021-27241 Link Following vulnerability in Avast Premium Security 20.8.2429
This vulnerability allows local attackers to delete arbitrary directories on affected installations of Avast Premium Security 20.8.2429 (Build 20.8.5653.561).
local
low complexity
avast CWE-59
6.1
2021-03-26 CVE-2021-20197 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib.
local
high complexity
gnu redhat netapp broadcom CWE-59
6.3
2021-03-23 CVE-2020-7346 Link Following vulnerability in Mcafee Data Loss Prevention
Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker through the use of junctions to cause the product to load DLLs of the attacker's choosing.
local
low complexity
mcafee CWE-59
7.8
2021-03-17 CVE-2021-28650 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations.
local
low complexity
gnome fedoraproject CWE-59
5.5