Vulnerability Name:

CCN-6420

Published:2001-04-18
Updated:2001-04-18
Summary:VMware is vulnerable to a symlink attack in the vmware-mount.pl script. The vmware-mount.pl script creates the temporary file vmware-mount.pl.<PID> in the /tmp directory insecurely because <PID> is the current PID of the command. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to create a symbolic link in the /tmp directory to the vmware-mount.pl <PID> file to overwrite any local file on the system.
CVSS v3 Severity:4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availibility (A): Low
CVSS v2 Severity:2.6 Low (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
2.5 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:H/RL:U/RC:UR)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): High
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availibility (A): Partial
Vulnerability Consequences:File Manipulation
References:Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Apr 18 2001 - 11:05:49 CDT
VMware symlink problems

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
vmware-mount-symlink(6420)

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:emc:vmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
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