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CVE-2020-15076 (GCVE-0-2020-15076)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-26 18:17 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:08
VLAI
Summary
Private Tunnel installer for macOS version 3.0.1 and older versions may corrupt system critical files it should not have access via symlinks in /tmp.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Private Tunnel Affected: 3.0.1 and prior versions
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