CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3992
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-07-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.
Affected configurations
• cronic project cronic 2
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331 Third Party Advisory