Vulnerability in Globus Toolkit
CVE-2006-4233
Globus Toolkit 3.2.x, 4.0.x, and 4.1.0 before 20060815 allow local users to obtain sensitive information (proxy certificates) and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp directory, as demonstrated by files created by (1) myproxy-admin-adduser, (2) grid-ca-sign, and (3) grid-security-config.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (17.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 18th percentile — 17.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Globus Toolkit — versions 3.2.0, 4.0.0, 4.1.0
References
- www.globus.org/mail_archive/security-announce/2006/08/msg00001.html (mailing-list, Patch)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3290 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/21516 (Exploit, Patch, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19549 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28410 (vdb-entry)