GHSA-xwg2-qc6c-7c3q

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    GHSA-xwg2-qc6c-7c3q

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: Fabric vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files

    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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2185, https://github.com/fabric/fabric/commit/3445b5653cd297039443110548fb3cab2e8e25af, https://github.com/fabric/fabric/commit/d7470d2db919ffcee80c245cf87e6d8d4ba6909c, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462, https://github.com/fabric/fabric, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003, http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz, 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

    Package

    Name: fabric

    Purl: pkg:pypi/fabric

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.1.0

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    0.0.2
    0.0.3
    0.0.4
    0.0.5
    0.0.6
    0.0.7
    0.0.8
    0.0.9

    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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