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CVE-2001-1593
CVE-2001-1593
REJECTED
Jakub Wilk found that a2ps, a tool to convert text and other types of files to PostScript, insecurely used a temporary file in spy_user(). A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running a2ps.
EPSS 0.06% · 18.6th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.06%
18.6th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | a2ps | 1:4.14-1.1, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737385 (circl)
- http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/a2ps.git/plain/a2ps-4.13-security.patch (circl)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060630 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20140204 Re: CVE request: a2ps insecure temporary file use (circl)
- [oss-security] 20140205 Re: CVE request: a2ps insecure temporary file use (circl)
- DSA-2892 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20140205 Re: CVE request: a2ps insecure temporary file use (circl)
Timeline
- Apr 5, 2014 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 3, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 26, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 17, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2001-1593 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1593 third-party-advisory