Link Following Affecting coolkey package, versions <1.1.0-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-COOLKEY-271468
  • published8 Nov 2007
  • disclosed8 Nov 2007

Introduced: 8 Nov 2007

CVE-2007-4129  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable coolkey to version 1.1.0-3 or higher.

NVD Description

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

CoolKey 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp/.pk11ipc1/ directory.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1