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

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2019-08-26 CVE-2018-20990 Link Following vulnerability in TAR Project TAR
An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust.
network
low complexity
tar-project CWE-59
7.5
2019-08-20 CVE-2018-1634 Link Following vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.10
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition 12.1 could allow a local user logged in with database administrator user to gain root privileges through a symbolic link vulnerability in infos.DBSERVERNAME.
local
low complexity
ibm CWE-59
6.7
2019-08-20 CVE-2018-1633 Link Following vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.10
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition 12.1 could allow a local user logged in with database administrator user to gain root privileges through a symbolic link vulnerability in onsrvapd.
local
low complexity
ibm CWE-59
6.7
2019-08-20 CVE-2018-1632 Link Following vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.10
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition 12.1 could allow a local user logged in with database administrator user to gain root privileges through a symbolic link vulnerability in .infxdirs.
local
low complexity
ibm CWE-59
6.7
2019-08-20 CVE-2018-1631 Link Following vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.1
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition 12.1 could allow a local user logged in with database administrator user to gain root privileges through a symbolic link vulnerability in oninit mongohash.
local
low complexity
ibm CWE-59
6.7
2019-08-20 CVE-2018-1630 Link Following vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.1
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition 12.1 could allow a local user logged in with database administrator user to gain root privileges through a symbolic link vulnerability in onmode.
local
low complexity
ibm CWE-59
6.7
2019-08-06 CVE-2019-5683 Link Following vulnerability in Nvidia GPU Driver
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver (all versions) contains a vulnerability in the user mode video driver trace logger component.
local
low complexity
nvidia CWE-59
7.8
2019-07-30 CVE-2019-10152 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in podman before version 1.4.0 in the way it handles symlinks inside containers.
local
high complexity
libpod-project opensuse CWE-59
7.2
2019-07-26 CVE-2019-13382 Link Following vulnerability in Techsmith Snagit 2019.1.2
UploaderService in SnagIT 2019.1.2 allows elevation of privilege by placing an invalid presentation file in %PROGRAMDATA%\TechSmith\TechSmith Recorder\QueuedPresentations and then creating a symbolic link in %PROGRAMDATA%\Techsmith\TechSmith Recorder\InvalidPresentations that points to an arbitrary folder with an arbitrary file name.
local
low complexity
techsmith CWE-59
7.8
2019-07-18 CVE-2019-11230 Link Following vulnerability in Avast Antivirus
In Avast Antivirus before 19.4, a local administrator can trick the product into renaming arbitrary files by replacing the Logs\Update.log file with a symlink.
local
low complexity
avast CWE-59
4.4