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

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2008-02-11 CVE-2008-0666 Link Following vulnerability in Website Meta Language Website Meta Language 2.0.11
Website META Language (WML) 2.0.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) the /tmp/pe.tmp.$$ temporary file used by wml_contrib/wmg.cgi and (2) temporary files used by wml_backend/p3_eperl/eperl_sys.c.
local
low complexity
website-meta-language CWE-59
3.6
2008-02-11 CVE-2008-0665 Link Following vulnerability in Website Meta Language Website Meta Language 2.0.11
wml_backend/p1_ipp/ipp.src in Website META Language (WML) 2.0.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the ipp.$$.tmp temporary file.
local
low complexity
website-meta-language CWE-59
3.6
2008-02-06 CVE-2008-0613 Link Following vulnerability in Xoops 2.0.18
Open redirect vulnerability in htdocs/user.php in XOOPS 2.0.18 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the xoops_redirect parameter.
network
low complexity
xoops CWE-59
5.0
2008-01-31 CVE-2007-4998 Link Following vulnerability in Linux Kernel
cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination.
local
linux CWE-59
6.9
2008-01-31 CVE-2008-0525 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
PatchLink Update client for Unix, as used by Novell ZENworks Patch Management Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac (LUM) 6.2094 through 6.4102 and other products, allows local users to (1) truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/patchlink.tmp file used by the logtrimmer script, and (2) execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the /tmp/plshutdown file used by the rebootTask script.
local
low complexity
unix lumension-security novell CWE-59
4.6
2008-01-17 CVE-2007-6692 Link Following vulnerability in Menalto Gallery
Open redirect vulnerability in Menalto Gallery before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the (1) Core and (2) print modules.
network
low complexity
menalto CWE-59
6.4
2007-12-31 CVE-2007-6595 Link Following vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav 0.92
ClamAV 0.92 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) temporary files used by the cli_gentempfd function in libclamav/others.c or on (2) .ascii files used by sigtool, when utf16-decode is enabled.
local
low complexity
clam-anti-virus CWE-59
2.1
2007-12-04 CVE-2007-6208 Link Following vulnerability in Claws Mail Claws Mail Tools
sylprint.pl in claws mail tools (claws-mail-tools) allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the sylprint.[USER].[PID] temporary file.
local
low complexity
claws-mail CWE-59
3.6
2007-11-20 CVE-2007-6061 Link Following vulnerability in Audacityteam Audacity 1.3.2
Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (recording deadlock) by creating the directory before Audacity is run.
network
low complexity
audacityteam CWE-59
5.0
2007-11-13 CVE-2007-5940 Link Following vulnerability in TUG Texlive 2007
feynmf.pl in feynmf 1.08, as used in TeXLive 2007, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the feynmf$$.pl temporary file.
local
low complexity
tug CWE-59
4.6