CVE-2014-5255

published 2019-11-21

CVE-2014-5255: xcfa before 5.0.1 creates temporary files insecurely which could allow local users to launch a symlink attack and overwrite arbitrary files. Note: A different…

Priority P4 29 high 7 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC H PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

xcfa before 5.0.1 creates temporary files insecurely which could allow local users to launch a symlink attack and overwrite arbitrary files. Note: A different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5254.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	xcfa	< xcfa 5.0.1-1 (bookworm)	xcfa 5.0.1-1 (bookworm)
xcfa	xcfa	>= 0 < 5.0.1-1	5.0.1-1
xcfa	xcfa	>= 0 < 5.0.1-1	5.0.1-1
xcfa	xcfa	>= 0 < 5.0.1-1	5.0.1-1
xcfa	xcfa	>= 0 < 5.0.1-1	5.0.1-1
xcfa_project	xcfa	< 5.0.1	5.0.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.0 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.4 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 4.7 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.7 LOW

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