#VU45121 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in tmux - CVE-2011-1496

 

#VU45121 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in tmux - CVE-2011-1496

Published: April 18, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU45121
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1496
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
tmux
Software vendor:
tmux

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

tmux 1.3 and 1.4 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows local users to gain utmp group privileges via a filename to the -S command-line option.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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