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CVE-2009-4193

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2009-09-27

Bugzilla:: 544284: CVE-2009-4193 Merkaartor: System files integrity break-out via symlink attack on log file

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Merkaartor 0.14 allows local users to append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/merkaartor.log temporary file.

Find out more about CVE-2009-4193 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score	2.1
Base Metrics	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

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Last Modified 2018-05-02T02:24:48+00:00

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