CVE-2011-2185 (GCVE-0-2011-2185)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-07-27 01:29 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:53
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Summary
Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) a /tmp/fab.*.tar file or (2) certain other files in the top level of /tmp/.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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