CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3351
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
openvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating OVAL system characteristics document with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
Affected configurations
• openvas openvas-scanner (< 2011-09-11)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 Third Party Advisory