CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4233
3.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Description
Globus Toolkit 3.2.x, 4.0.x, and 4.1.0 before 20060815 allow local users to obtain sensitive information (proxy certificates) and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp directory, as demonstrated by files created by (1) myproxy-admin-adduser, (2) grid-ca-sign, and (3) grid-security-config.
Affected configurations
• globus globus toolkit 3.2.0
• globus globus toolkit 4.0.0
• globus globus toolkit 4.1.0
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21516 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-announce/2006/08/msg00001.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19549 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3290 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28410 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21516 Exploit, Patch
- http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-announce/2006/08/msg00001.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19549 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3290 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28410 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com