CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-8455

7.1 HIGH Published 2019-04-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-04-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
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:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59, CWE-65

Description

A hard-link created from the log file of Check Point ZoneAlarm up to 15.4.062 to any file on the system will get its permission changed so that all users can access that linked file. Doing this on files with limited access gains the local attacker higher privileges to the file.

Affected configurations

• checkpoint zonealarm (<= 15.4.062)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
  • CWE-65 Windows Hard Link weakness

References