CVE-2015-4156

GNU Parallel before 20150522 (Nepal), when using (1) --cat or (2) --fifo with --sshlogin, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Score

CVSS 2.0 3.6 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2015-06-02

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Parallel (Gnu)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-04/msg00045.html
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-05/msg00024.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00090.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74961