Vulnerability CVE-2011-2185
Published: 2011-07-26   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) a /tmp/fab.*.tar file or (2) certain other files in the top level of /tmp/.

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Fabfile -> Fabric 

 References:
http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/5
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062534.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003
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