Symlink Attack Affecting distrotech/foomatic-filters package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DISTROTECHFOOMATICFILTERS-2367294
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Nov 2019

CVE-2011-2923  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for distrotech/foomatic-filters.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack foomatic-rip filter, all versions, used insecurely creates temporary files for storage of PostScript data by rendering the data when the debug mode was enabled. This flaw may be exploited by a local attacker to conduct symlink attacks by overwriting arbitrary files accessible with the privileges of the user running the foomatic-rip universal print filter.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1