CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-28407
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-03
- 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:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
In swtpm before 0.4.2 and 0.5.x before 0.5.1, a local attacker may be able to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack against a temporary file such as TMP2-00.permall.
Affected configurations
• swtpm project swtpm (< 0.4.2)
• swtpm project swtpm 0.5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198395 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/releases/tag/v0.4.2 Release Notes
- https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/releases/tag/v0.5.1 Release Notes
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198395 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/releases/tag/v0.4.2 Release Notes
- https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/releases/tag/v0.5.1 Release Notes