Vulnerability in Debian Axiom

CVE-2014-1640

axiom-test.sh in axiom 20100701-1.1 uses tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.

EPSS: 0.003 (23.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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