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    CVE-2014-1858

    __init__.py in f2py in NumPy before 1.8.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

    Published:Feb 5, 2014
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jan 8, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.00072
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Numpy
    Product
    Numpy

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-149 Explore for Predictable Temporary File Names
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-155 Screen Temporary Files for Sensitive Information
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-27 Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    References

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128358.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128781.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/3
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65441
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737778
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062009
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91318
    https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.8.x/doc/release/1.8.1-notes.rst
    https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/0bb46c1448b0d3f5453d5182a17ea7ac5854ee15
    https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4262
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128358.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128781.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/08/3
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65441
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737778
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062009
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91318
    https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/maintenance/1.8.x/doc/release/1.8.1-notes.rst
    https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/0bb46c1448b0d3f5453d5182a17ea7ac5854ee15
    https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4262

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