Filtered by CWE-59
Total 1389 CVE
CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v3.1
CVE-2017-9525 3 Canonical, Cron Project, Debian 3 Ubuntu Linux, Cron, Debian Linux 2025-04-20 6.7 Medium
In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.
CVE-2017-8806 3 Canonical, Debian, Postgresql 3 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Postgresql 2025-04-20 5.5 Medium
The Debian pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster, and pg_upgradecluster scripts, as distributed in the Debian postgresql-common package before 181+deb9u1 for PostgreSQL (and other packages related to Debian and Ubuntu), handled symbolic links insecurely, which could result in local denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.
CVE-2015-8860 1 Nodejs 1 Node.js 2025-04-20 N/A
The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.
CVE-2016-10089 1 Nagios 1 Nagios 2025-04-20 N/A
Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641.
CVE-2015-5701 1 Tug 1 Texlive 2025-04-20 N/A
mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.
CVE-2016-10374 1 Perltidy Project 1 Perltidy 2025-04-20 5.5 Medium
perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete.
CVE-2016-9774 3 Apache, Canonical, Debian 3 Tomcat, Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux 2025-04-20 N/A
The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before 8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the tomcat account to obtain sensitive information or gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina localhost directory.
CVE-2015-7529 3 Canonical, Redhat, Sos Project 9 Ubuntu Linux, Enterprise Linux, Enterprise Linux Desktop and 6 more 2025-04-20 7.8 High
sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.
CVE-2017-2916 1 Meetcircle 2 Circle With Disney, Circle With Disney Firmware 2025-04-20 8.8 High
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the /api/CONFIG/restore functionality of Circle with Disney running firmware 2.0.1. Specially crafted network packets can cause an arbitrary file to be overwritten. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.
CVE-2015-8326 1 Iptables-parse Project 1 Iptables-parse Module 2025-04-20 N/A
The IPTables-Parse module before 1.6 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files owned by the current user.
CVE-2015-3149 1 Redhat 8 Enterprise Linux, Enterprise Linux Desktop, Enterprise Linux Hpc Node and 5 more 2025-04-20 N/A
The Hotspot component in OpenJDK8 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
CVE-2024-0206 2 Microsoft, Trellix 2 Windows, Anti-malware Engine 2025-04-17 7.1 High
A symbolic link manipulation vulnerability in Trellix Anti-Malware Engine prior to the January 2024 release allows an authenticated local user to potentially gain an escalation of privileges. This was achieved by adding an entry to the registry under the Trellix ENS registry folder with a symbolic link to files that the user wouldn't normally have permission to. After a scan, the Engine would follow the links and remove the files
CVE-2022-2897 1 Measuresoft 2 Scadapro Client, Scadapro Server 2025-04-16 7.8 High
Measuresoft ScadaPro Server and Client (All Versions) do not properly resolve links before file access; this could allow privilege escalation..
CVE-2022-2898 1 Measuresoft 2 Scadapro Client, Scadapro Server 2025-04-16 6.1 Medium
Measuresoft ScadaPro Server and Client (All Versions) do not properly resolve links before file access; this could allow a denial-of-service condition.
CVE-2022-45412 5 Apple, Google, Linux and 2 more 11 Macos, Android, Linux Kernel and 8 more 2025-04-15 8.8 High
When resolving a symlink such as <code>file:///proc/self/fd/1</code>, an error message may be produced where the symlink was resolved to a string containing unitialized memory in the buffer. <br>*This bug only affects Thunderbird on Unix-based operated systems (Android, Linux, MacOS). Windows is unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 102.5, Thunderbird < 102.5, and Firefox < 107.
CVE-2022-45798 2 Microsoft, Trendmicro 2 Windows, Apex One 2025-04-15 7.8 High
A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by creating a symbolic link and abusing the service to delete a file. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
CVE-2022-4563 1 Freedom 1 Securedrop 2025-04-15 7.8 High
A vulnerability was found in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file gpg-agent.conf. The manipulation leads to symlink following. Local access is required to approach this attack. The name of the patch is b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-215972.
CVE-2023-36568 1 Microsoft 3 365 Apps, Office, Office Long Term Servicing Channel 2025-04-14 7 High
Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36711 1 Microsoft 11 Windows 10 1507, Windows 10 1607, Windows 10 1809 and 8 more 2025-04-14 7.8 High
Windows Runtime C++ Template Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-36723 1 Microsoft 7 Windows 10 1809, Windows 10 21h2, Windows 10 22h2 and 4 more 2025-04-14 7.8 High
Windows Container Manager Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability