CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4472
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.
Affected configurations
• freedesktop poppler (<= 0.24.3)
• freedesktop poppler 0.24.0
• freedesktop poppler 0.24.1
• freedesktop poppler 0.24.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/99064 osvdb.org
- http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html poppler.freedesktop.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183 seclists.org
- http://osvdb.org/99064 osvdb.org
- http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html poppler.freedesktop.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183 seclists.org