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

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2018-06-07 CVE-2018-12015 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.
network
low complexity
canonical debian perl archive apple netapp CWE-59
7.5
2018-05-08 CVE-2018-10380 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
kwallet-pam in KDE KWallet before 5.12.6 allows local users to obtain ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
local
low complexity
kde debian opensuse CWE-59
7.8
2018-05-04 CVE-2018-10722 Link Following vulnerability in Cylance Cylanceprotect
In Cylance CylancePROTECT before 1470, an unprivileged local user can obtain SYSTEM privileges because users have Modify access to the %PROGRAMFILES%\Cylance\Desktop\log folder, the CyUpdate process grants users Modify access to new files created in this folder, and a new file can be a symlink chain to a pathname of an arbitrary DLL that CyUpdate uses.
local
low complexity
cylance CWE-59
7.8
2018-05-01 CVE-2013-0159 Link Following vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora 17/18
The fedora-business-cards package before 1-0.1.beta1.fc17 on Fedora 17 and before 1-0.1.beta1.fc18 on Fedora 18 allows local users to cause a denial of service or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/fedora-business-cards-buffer.svg.
local
low complexity
fedoraproject CWE-59
7.1
2018-04-26 CVE-2016-9602 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
Qemu before version 2.9 is vulnerable to an improper link following when built with the VirtFS.
network
low complexity
qemu debian CWE-59
8.8
2018-04-03 CVE-2018-4112 Link Following vulnerability in Apple mac OS X
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products.
local
low complexity
apple CWE-59
5.5
2018-03-26 CVE-2014-2312 Link Following vulnerability in Intel Thermald
The main function in android_main.cpp in thermald allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/thermald.pid.
local
low complexity
intel CWE-59
5.5
2018-03-22 CVE-2018-5225 Link Following vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket
In browser editing in Atlassian Bitbucket Server from version 4.13.0 before 5.4.8 (the fixed version for 4.13.0 through 5.4.7), 5.5.0 before 5.5.8 (the fixed version for 5.5.x), 5.6.0 before 5.6.5 (the fixed version for 5.6.x), 5.7.0 before 5.7.3 (the fixed version for 5.7.x), and 5.8.0 before 5.8.2 (the fixed version for 5.8.x), allows authenticated users to gain remote code execution using the in browser editing feature via editing a symbolic link within a repository.
network
low complexity
atlassian CWE-59
critical
9.9
2018-03-19 CVE-2018-1196 Link Following vulnerability in VMWare Spring Boot
Spring Boot supports an embedded launch script that can be used to easily run the application as a systemd or init.d linux service.
network
high complexity
vmware CWE-59
5.9
2018-03-13 CVE-2017-1002101 Link Following vulnerability in Kubernetes
In Kubernetes versions 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x and prior to versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9 and 1.9.4 containers using subpath volume mounts with any volume type (including non-privileged pods, subject to file permissions) can access files/directories outside of the volume, including the host's filesystem.
network
low complexity
kubernetes CWE-59
critical
9.6