CVE-2006-4233 (GCVE-0-2006-4233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-08-18 19:55 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:57
VLAI
Summary
Globus Toolkit 3.2.x, 4.0.x, and 4.1.0 before 20060815 allow local users to obtain sensitive information (proxy certificates) and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp directory, as demonstrated by files created by (1) myproxy-admin-adduser, (2) grid-ca-sign, and (3) grid-security-config.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-annou… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3290 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/21516 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19549 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2006-08-15 00:00
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