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CVE-2011-3351

openvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating OVAL system characteristics document with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.

Published

2019-11-25T22:15:11.013

Last Modified

2024-11-21T01:30:19.103

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.1 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

9.2

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-59

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	openvas	openvas-scanner	< 2011-09-11	Yes

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 Broken Link ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)