Published: 10/05/2000 Updated: 10/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.7 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 1.9

VMScore: 375

Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Netscape 4.73 and previous versions follows symlinks when it imports a new certificate, which allows local users to overwrite files of the user importing the certificate.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1201/info Netscape Communicator version 473 and prior may be susceptible to a /tmp file race condition when importing certificates Netscape creates a /tmp file which is world readable and writable in /tmp, without calling stat() or fstat() on the file As such, it is possible, should a user be able to pre ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0126.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1201 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19912/

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