CVE-2006-5297

Description

Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

Risk Information

Base Score

4.7

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.107

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2007:0386) Moderate: mutt security update mutt-1.4.2.2-3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2007:0386) Moderate: mutt security update mutt-1.4.2.2-3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234