CVE-2020-8948

CVSS v3 Score
7.8
High
CVSS v2 Score
7.2
High

Vulnerability Description

The Sierra Wireless Windows Mobile Broadband Driver Packages (MBDP) before build 5043 allows an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files in arbitrary folders using hard links. An unprivileged user could leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

CVSS:7.8(High)

cci_dir in IBM U2 UniVerse 10.0.0.9 and earlier creates hard links and unlinks files as root, which allows local users to gain privileges by deleting and overwriting arbitrary files.

CWE-592003
CVSS:7.8(High)

A symlink issue exists in Iceweasel-firegpg before 0.6 due to insecure tempfile handling.

CWE-592008
CVSS:7.8(High)

atop: symlink attack possible due to insecure tempfile handling

CWE-592011
CVSS:7.8(High)

The init script in the Debian x11-common package before 1:7.6+12 is vulnerable to a symlink attack that can lead to a privilege escalation during package installation.

CWE-592012
CVSS:7.8(High)

(1) oo-analytics-export and (2) oo-analytics-import in the openshift-origin-broker-util package in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 and 2 allow local users to have unspecified impact via a symlink attac...

CWE-592013
CVSS:7.8(High)

fish before 2.1.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/fishd.log.%s, (2) /tmp/.pac-cache.$USER, (3) /tmp/.yum-cache.$USER, or (4) /tmp/.rpm-cache.$USER.

CWE-592014