Vulnerability CVE-2014-0039
Published: 2014-02-07   Modified: 2014-02-08

Description:
Untrusted search path vulnerability in fwsnort before 1.6.4, when not running as root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse fwsnort.conf in the current working directory.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
fwsnort loaded configuration file from cwd when run as a non-root user
Murray McAlliste...
03.02.2014

Type:

CWE-Other

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
Cipherdyne -> Fwsnort 

 References:
https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/commit/fa977453120cc48e1654f373311f9cac468d3348
https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/blob/master/ChangeLog
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65341
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/221
http://osvdb.org/102822
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