fkie_cve-2024-5742
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-06-12 09:15
Modified
2024-11-21 09:48
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing, a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6986
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9430
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00006.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu nano *
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0


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