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CVE-2018-19044

Public on 2018-11-08
Modified on 2020-08-12
Description

keepalived 2.0.8 didn't 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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 keepalived 2020-08-10 22:53 ALAS-2020-1414
Amazon Linux 2 - Core keepalived 2019-10-21 18:01 ALAS2-2019-1323

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 3.3 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N