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

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-07-25 CVE-2015-3149 Link Following vulnerability in Redhat products
The Hotspot component in OpenJDK8 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
local
low complexity
redhat CWE-59
5.5
2017-06-26 CVE-2015-3315 Link Following vulnerability in Redhat Automatic BUG Reporting Tool
Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to read, change the ownership of, or have other unspecified impact on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /var/tmp/abrt/*/maps, (2) /tmp/jvm-*/hs_error.log, (3) /proc/*/exe, (4) /etc/os-release in a chroot, or (5) an unspecified root directory related to librpm.
local
low complexity
redhat CWE-59
7.8
2017-06-09 CVE-2017-9525 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.
local
low complexity
cron-project debian CWE-59
6.7
2017-06-08 CVE-2016-3108 Link Following vulnerability in Pulpproject Pulp
The pulp-gen-nodes-certificate script in Pulp before 2.8.3 allows local users to leak the keys or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
local
low complexity
pulpproject CWE-59
7.1
2017-06-08 CVE-2017-8108 Link Following vulnerability in Cisofy Lynis
Unspecified tests in Lynis before 2.5.0 allow local users to write to arbitrary files or possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
local
low complexity
cisofy CWE-59
7.8
2017-06-07 CVE-2015-6240 Link Following vulnerability in Redhat Ansible
The chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins in ansible before 1.9.2 allow local users to escape a restricted environment via a symlink attack.
local
low complexity
redhat CWE-59
7.8
2017-06-07 CVE-2015-8326 Link Following vulnerability in Iptables-Parse Project Iptables-Parse Module
The IPTables-Parse module before 1.6 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files owned by the current user.
local
low complexity
iptables-parse-project CWE-59
5.5
2017-06-07 CVE-2015-7724 Link Following vulnerability in AMD Fglrx-Driver 14.4.2/15.7
AMD fglrx-driver before 15.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.
local
low complexity
amd CWE-59
7.8
2017-06-07 CVE-2015-7723 Link Following vulnerability in AMD Fglrx-Driver 14.4.2
AMD fglrx-driver before 15.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.
local
low complexity
amd CWE-59
7.8
2017-05-22 CVE-2017-6981 Link Following vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products.
local
low complexity
apple CWE-59
7.8