Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU40896

#VU40896 Link following in Oracle products - CVE-2014-9512

Published: February 12, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU40896

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9512

CWE-ID: CWE-59

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
Rsync
Opensuse
Oracle Solaris

Software vendor:
Samba
SUSE
Oracle

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.

rsync 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in the synchronization path.

Install update from vendor's website.