CVE-2020-28407 — Link Following in Project Swtpm

CWE-59 — Link Following5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Swtpm Project SwtpmDebian Swtpm
Timeline
PublishedNov 3

Description

In swtpm before 0.4.2 and 0.5.x before 0.5.1, a local attacker may be able to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack against a temporary file such as TMP2-00.permall.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDswtpm_project/swtpm< 0.4.2+1
▶Ubuntuswtpm_project/swtpm< 0.6.3-0ubuntu3
▶debiandebian/swtpm

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.suse.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.suse.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2020-28407: In swtpm before 0↗2023-11-03
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GHSA
GHSA-52x8-2f4w-q8mm: In swtpm before 0↗2023-11-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
swtpm: symlink issue may lead to privilege escalation↗2020-11-14
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Debian
CVE-2020-28407: swtpm - In swtpm before 0.4.2 and 0.5.x before 0.5.1, a local attacker may be able to ov...↗2020
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