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GForge Insecure Temporary Files
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30088
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Release Date:
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2008-05-16
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Popularity:
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3,062 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Workaround
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| Software: | GForge 4.x
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A security issue has been reported in GForge, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to temporary files being handled in an insecure manner. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the affected scripts.
The security issue is reported in version 4.5.19. Other versions may also be affected.
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