Vulnerabilities > Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-17 | CVE-2016-10374 | Link Following vulnerability in Perltidy Project Perltidy perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete. | 5.5 |
| 2017-04-04 | CVE-2017-7418 | Link Following vulnerability in Proftpd 1.3.2/1.3.4/1.3.6 ProFTPD before 1.3.5e and 1.3.6 before 1.3.6rc5 controls whether the home directory of a user could contain a symbolic link through the AllowChrootSymlinks configuration option, but checks only the last path component when enforcing AllowChrootSymlinks. | 5.5 |
| 2017-04-02 | CVE-2017-2390 | Link Following vulnerability in Apple products An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. | 5.5 |
| 2017-03-23 | CVE-2016-9774 | Link Following vulnerability in multiple products The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before 8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the tomcat account to obtain sensitive information or gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina localhost directory. | 7.8 |
| 2017-02-20 | CVE-2016-7619 | Link Following vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. | 5.5 |
| 2017-02-20 | CVE-2016-4679 | Link Following vulnerability in Apple products An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. | 5.5 |
| 2017-01-23 | CVE-2015-8860 | Link Following vulnerability in Nodejs Node.Js The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive. | 7.5 |
| 2017-01-20 | CVE-2016-6253 | Link Following vulnerability in Netbsd mail.local in NetBSD versions 6.0 through 6.0.6, 6.1 through 6.1.5, and 7.0 allows local users to change ownership of or append data to arbitrary files on the target system via a symlink attack on the user mailbox. | 7.8 |
| 2016-12-15 | CVE-2016-9566 | Link Following vulnerability in Nagios base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. | 7.8 |
| 2016-12-13 | CVE-2016-6664 | Link Following vulnerability in multiple products mysqld_safe in Oracle MySQL through 5.5.51, 5.6.x through 5.6.32, and 5.7.x through 5.7.14; MariaDB; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17, when using file-based logging, allows local users with access to the mysql account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on error logs and possibly other files. | 7.0 |