CVE-2024-5742

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00006.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3