3.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-4155

Published: 02/06/2015 Updated: 07/12/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 320
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

GNU Parallel prior to 20150422, when using (1) --pipe, (2) --tmux, (3) --cat, (4) --fifo, or (5) --compress, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

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Debian Bug report logs - #787954 parallel: CVE-2015-4155 CVE-2015-4156 Package: src:parallel; Maintainer for src:parallel is Rogério Brito <rbrito@imeuspbr>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 20:33:01 UTC Severity: normal Tags: fixed-upstream, security, upstream Found in ...