Symlink Attack Affecting d-bus package, versions [,1.2.28)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DBUS-2371874
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Jun 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jun 2011

CVE-2011-2533  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade d-bus to version 1.2.28 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file in /tmp/.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1