Access Restriction Bypass Affecting zsh-users/zsh package, versions [,4.3.4]


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-ZSHUSERSZSH-2369448
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Dec 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Dec 2007

CVE-2007-6209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for zsh-users/zsh.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Util/difflog.pl in zsh 4.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

CVSS Scores

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