CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-14329

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2018-07-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-59

Description

In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• htslib htslib 1.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References