CVE-2014-1838

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Published 2014-03-11 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.4

Description

The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.61.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.61.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`0.61.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.61.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.61.0-1`
suse	12.3	affected
suse	13.1	affected

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	logilab-common	`<0.61.0`	`0.61.0`
PyPI	logilab-common	`<0.60.1`	`0.60.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
logilab	logilab-common	`{"endIncluding":"0.60.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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