CVE-2014-1839 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Execute class in shellutils in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 uses tempfile.mktemp, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by pre-creating the temporary file.

Published: 2014-03-11

Score: 4.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:logilab:logilab-common:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-0032	The Execute class in shellutils in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 uses tempfile.mktemp, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by pre-creating the temporary file.
Github GHSA	GHSA-g5m2-22h2-rr3j	Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions in logilab-commons

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00061.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57209
http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207562
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051

History

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Subscriptions

Logilab Logilab-common

Opensuse Opensuse

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-03-11T15:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:50:11.358Z

Reserved: 2014-02-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-1839

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-03-11T19:37:04.850

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-1839

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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