CVE-2014-1638Not scoredCWE-59

CVE-2014-1638: Debian Localepurge vulnerability

Debian · Localepurge

Affected: Debian Localepurge · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.4%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

30th percentile

050100

Higher than 30% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Link Following · File and Path Handling
Vendor: Debian
Published: January 2014
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), January 2014

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