Vulnerability CVE-2024-5742


Published: 2024-06-12

Description:
A vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing, a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574

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