Link Following Affecting coreutils package, versions <4.1.2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-COREUTILS-317474
- published 31 Jan 2008
- disclosed 31 Jan 2008
Introduced: 31 Jan 2008
CVE-2007-4998 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10 coreutils to version 4.1.2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination.