CVE-2016-3992 (GCVE-0-2016-3992)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-07-26 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:10
VLAI
Summary
cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-04-10 00:00
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