Published: 08/01/2018 Updated: 22/04/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 187

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

(1) core/tests/test_memmap.py, (2) core/tests/test_multiarray.py, (3) f2py/f2py2e.py, and (4) lib/tests/test_io.py in NumPy prior to 1.8.1 allow local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

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numpy numpy
numpy numpy 1.8.1
redhat enterprise linux 7.0
redhat enterprise linux 6.0
fedoraproject fedora 19
fedoraproject fedora 20

Debian Bug report logs - #737778 python-numpy: insecure use of /tmp (CVE-2014-1858 CVE-2014-1859) Package: python-numpy; Maintainer for python-numpy is Sandro Tosi <morph@debianorg>; Source for python-numpy is src:python-numpy (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 21 ...

f2py insecurely uses a temporary file A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running f2py ...

(1) core/tests/test_memmappy, (2) core/tests/test_multiarraypy, (3) f2py/f2py2epy, and (4) lib/tests/test_iopy in NumPy before 181 allow local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file ...

CWE-59 https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4262 https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/0bb46c1448b0d3f5453d5182a17ea7ac5854ee15 https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.8.x/doc/release/1.8.1-notes.rst https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91317 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062009 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737778 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65440 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/3 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128781.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128358.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737778 https://nvd.nist.gov https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-302.html

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