CVE-2024-5742

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / nano

Package

Name: nano
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/nano?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.4-2+deb11u3

Affected versions

5.*

5.4-2

5.4-2+deb11u1

5.4-2+deb11u2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / nano

Package

Name: nano
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/nano?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

7.2-1+deb12u1

Affected versions

7.*

7.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / nano

Package

Name: nano
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/nano?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

8.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}