Vulnerability CVE-2006-4233


Published: 2006-08-18   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Globus Toolkit 3.2.x, 4.0.x, and 4.1.0 before 20060815 allow local users to obtain sensitive information (proxy certificates) and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp directory, as demonstrated by files created by (1) myproxy-admin-adduser, (2) grid-ca-sign, and (3) grid-security-config.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.6/10
4.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Globus -> Globus toolkit 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19549
http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-announce/2006/08/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21516
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3290
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28410

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