CVE-2018-19044

Description

keepalived 2.0.8 didnt check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.

Risk Information

Base Score

4.7

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.119

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2019:2285)Moderate: security and bug fix update keepalived-debuginfo-1.3.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm	Linux
Keepalived update (ELSA-2019-2285) keepalived-1.3.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

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References

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