GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2/GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2

Aliases

CVE-2014-4996

Published

2022-05-14T03:48:04Z

Modified

2023-11-08T03:57:42Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

VladTheEnterprising allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack

Details

lib/vlad/dba/mysql.rb in the VladTheEnterprising gem 0.2 for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/my.cnf.#{target_host}.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2023-01-27T00:50:46Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2018-01-10T18:29:00Z",
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

RubyGems / VladTheEnterprising

Package

Name: VladTheEnterprising
Purl: pkg:gem/VladTheEnterprising

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Last Affected

0.2

Affected versions

0.*

0.1.4

0.1.5

0.1.6

0.1.7

0.1.8

0.2

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2/GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2.json"