CVE-2014-5260

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

16/08/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_##### temporary file.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xml-dt_project:xml-dt::::::::		0.63 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:xml-dt_project:xml-dt:0.60:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xml-dt_project:xml-dt:0.61:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:xml-dt_project:xml-dt:0.62:::::::*

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CVE-2014-5260

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools