Total
1523 CVE
| CVE | Vendors | Products | Updated | CVSS v2 | CVSS v3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2016-9595 | 2 Redhat, Theforeman | 3 Satellite, Satellite Capsule, Katello | 2026-06-17 | 3.6 LOW | 7.3 HIGH |
| A flaw was found in katello-debug before 3.4.0 where certain scripts and log files used insecure temporary files. A local user could exploit this flaw to conduct a symbolic-link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files. | |||||
| CVE-2016-9566 | 1 Nagios | 1 Nagios | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565. | |||||
| CVE-2016-8641 | 1 Nagios | 1 Nagios | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 6.7 MEDIUM |
| A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change. | |||||
| CVE-2016-7619 | 1 Apple | 3 Iphone Os, Mac Os X, Watchos | 2026-06-17 | 2.1 LOW | 5.5 MEDIUM |
| An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "libarchive" component, which allows local users to write to arbitrary files via vectors related to symlinks. | |||||
| CVE-2016-7490 | 1 Teradata | 1 Studio Express | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| The installation script studioexpressinstall for Teradata Studio Express 15.12.00.00 creates files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious local user could create a symlink in /tmp and possibly clobber system files or perhaps elevate privileges. | |||||
| CVE-2016-6664 | 3 Mariadb, Oracle, Percona | 4 Mariadb, Mysql, Percona Server and 1 more | 2026-06-17 | 6.9 MEDIUM | 7.0 HIGH |
| mysqld_safe in Oracle MySQL through 5.5.51, 5.6.x through 5.6.32, and 5.7.x through 5.7.14; MariaDB; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17, when using file-based logging, allows local users with access to the mysql account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on error logs and possibly other files. | |||||
| CVE-2016-6253 | 1 Netbsd | 1 Netbsd | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| mail.local in NetBSD versions 6.0 through 6.0.6, 6.1 through 6.1.5, and 7.0 allows local users to change ownership of or append data to arbitrary files on the target system via a symlink attack on the user mailbox. | |||||
| CVE-2016-4679 | 1 Apple | 4 Iphone Os, Mac Os X, Tvos and 1 more | 2026-06-17 | 4.3 MEDIUM | 5.5 MEDIUM |
| An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. watchOS before 3.1 is affected. The issue involves the "libarchive" component, which allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive containing a symlink. | |||||
| CVE-2016-3108 | 1 Pulpproject | 1 Pulp | 2026-06-17 | 3.6 LOW | 7.1 HIGH |
| The pulp-gen-nodes-certificate script in Pulp before 2.8.3 allows local users to leak the keys or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. | |||||
| CVE-2016-3096 | 2 Fedoraproject, Redhat | 2 Fedora, Ansible | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| The create_script function in the lxc_container module in Ansible before 1.9.6-1 and 2.x before 2.0.2.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) /opt/.lxc-attach-script, (2) the archived container in the archive_path directory, or the (3) lxc-attach-script.log or (4) lxc-attach-script.err files in the temporary directory. | |||||
| CVE-2016-1255 | 2 Canonical, Debian | 3 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Postgresql-common | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common package in Debian wheezy before 134wheezy5, in Debian jessie before 165+deb8u2, in Debian unstable before 178, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS before 129ubuntu1.2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 154ubuntu1.1, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 173ubuntu0.1, in Ubuntu 17.04 before 179ubuntu0.1, and in Ubuntu 17.10 before 184ubuntu1.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a logfile in /var/log/postgresql. | |||||
| CVE-2016-1247 | 4 Canonical, Debian, F5 and 1 more | 4 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Nginx and 1 more | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log. | |||||
| CVE-2016-10374 | 1 Perltidy Project | 1 Perltidy | 2026-06-17 | 2.1 LOW | 5.5 MEDIUM |
| perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete. | |||||
| CVE-2015-8860 | 1 Nodejs | 1 Node.js | 2026-06-17 | 5.0 MEDIUM | 7.5 HIGH |
| The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive. | |||||
| CVE-2015-8326 | 1 Iptables-parse Project | 1 Iptables-parse Module | 2026-06-17 | 3.6 LOW | 5.5 MEDIUM |
| The IPTables-Parse module before 1.6 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files owned by the current user. | |||||
| CVE-2015-7758 | 2 Gummi Project, Opensuse | 3 Gummi, Leap, Opensuse | 2026-06-17 | 2.1 LOW | 3.3 LOW |
| Gummi 0.6.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary dot file that uses the name of an existing file and a (1) .aux, (2) .log, (3) .out, (4) .pdf, or (5) .toc extension for the file name, as demonstrated by .thesis.tex.aux. | |||||
| CVE-2015-7724 | 1 Amd | 1 Fglrx-driver | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| AMD fglrx-driver before 15.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack. NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7723. | |||||
| CVE-2015-7723 | 1 Amd | 1 Fglrx-driver | 2026-06-17 | 7.2 HIGH | 7.8 HIGH |
| AMD fglrx-driver before 15.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack. | |||||
| CVE-2015-7529 | 3 Canonical, Redhat, Sos Project | 8 Ubuntu Linux, Enterprise Linux Desktop, Enterprise Linux Server and 5 more | 2026-06-17 | 4.6 MEDIUM | 7.8 HIGH |
| sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date. | |||||
| CVE-2015-6927 | 1 Openvz | 1 Vzctl | 2026-06-17 | 3.6 LOW | N/A |
| vzctl before 4.9.4 determines the virtual environment (VE) layout based on the presence of root.hdd/DiskDescriptor.xml in the VE private directory, which allows local simfs container (CT) root users to change the root password for arbitrary ploop containers, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on the ploop container root.hdd file and then access a control panel. | |||||