GHSA-4fx8-jx6v-vjhj

GHSA-4fx8-jx6v-vjhj PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

A flaw was found in katello-debug before 3.4.0 where certain scripts and log files used insecure temporary files. A local user could exploit this flaw to conduct a symbolic-link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

5.5

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

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9595 advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336 url
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9595 url

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