Link Following Affecting guilt package, versions <0.27-1.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-GUILT-1547754
  • published4 Oct 2007
  • disclosed4 Oct 2007

Introduced: 4 Oct 2007

CVE-2007-5207  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 guilt to version 0.27-1.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream guilt package and not the guilt package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

guilt 0.27 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a guilt.log.[PID] temporary file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1