CVE-2011-2185

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    CVE-2011-2185

    Published: 27 Jul 2011Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) a /tmp/fab.*.tar file or (2) certain other files in the top level of /tmp/.

    References: http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062534.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/5, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/12

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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