PT-2018-5106 · Red Hat · Katello-Debug

Evgeni Golov · Published 2018-07-27 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-9595

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.3

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions katello-debug versions prior to 3.4.0

Description A flaw was found in katello-debug where certain scripts and log files used insecure temporary files, allowing a local user to conduct a symbolic-link attack and overwrite the contents of arbitrary files.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.4.0, update to version 3.4.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the temporary files used by the scripts and log files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-377

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-9595

RHSA-2018:0336

Affected Products

Katello-Debug

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9595 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9595 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9595 · Patch