Symlink File Overwrite Affecting vladtheenterprising package, versions >=0.0.0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-VLADTHEENTERPRISING-20183
- published 29 Jun 2014
- disclosed 29 Jun 2014
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 29 Jun 2014
CVE-2014-4995 Open this link in a new tabOverview
VladTheEnterprising is a series of packages to help using the Vlad
gem to manage "enterprise" environments.
Affected versions of this Gem contain a flaw causing the program to create temporary files insecurely. It is possible for a local attacker to use a symlink attack against the /tmp/my.cnf.#{target_host}
file they can overwrite arbitrary files, gain access to the MySQL root password, or inject arbitrary commands.