Link following in lynis - CVE-2014-3986
Published: June 8, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41569
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3986
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.
include/tests_webservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis.*.unsorted file with an easily determined name.
Affected software
lynis
Fedora
lynis
Fedora
lynis
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3986
Install update from vendor's website.
lynis - update to 1.5.6-1.el6