CVE-2024-5742

June 12, 2024, 9:15 a.m.

4.7
Medium

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing, a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
GNU Nano

Weaknesses

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
2024-06-12
CVE-2024-5742
CWE-377

CVSS Score

4.7 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: HIGH
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: NONE
    • View Vector String

    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Date

  • Published: June 12, 2024, 9:15 a.m.
  • Last Modified: June 12, 2024, 9:15 a.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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