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Pine < 4.63 rpdump Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2814

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a local flaw in the way that it creates temporary files.

Description

Pine versions 4.62 and below suffer from a vulnerability with the rpdump utility. Rpdump ships with Pine by default. This version of rpdump is vulnerable to a local file-access race condition. An attacker exploiting this flaw would need local access to the machine as well as the knowledge of when a user was using rpdump. Successful exploitation results in elevation of privileges.

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.63 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 2814

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 4/11/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 1.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:university_of_washington:pine

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1066

BID: 13093