Arbitrary File Access Affecting logilab-common package, versions [0.38.1,0.61.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LOGILABCOMMON-40032
  • published30 Jan 2014
  • disclosed30 Jan 2014
  • creditJakub Wilk

Introduced: 30 Jan 2014

CVE-2014-1838  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to version 0.61.0 or greater.

Overview

logilab-common is a collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure use of temporary file attacks. The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

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