Upstream information

CVE-2016-3992 at MITRE

Description

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	None

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.2
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	None
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 974845 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2016:1741-1

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`cronic >= 3-1.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10384

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sun Apr 10 17:19:46 2016
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 22:58:58 2024