CVE-2006-4233

Summary

CVECVE-2006-4233
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-08-18 20:04:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-20 01:32:00 UTC
DescriptionGlobus Toolkit 3.2.x, 4.0.x, and 4.1.0 before 20060815 allow local users to obtain sensitive information (proxy certificates) and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in the /tmp directory, as demonstrated by files created by (1) myproxy-admin-adduser, (2) grid-ca-sign, and (3) grid-security-config.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Globus Globus Toolkit 3.2.0 All All All
Application Globus Globus Toolkit 4.0.0 All All All
Application Globus Globus Toolkit 4.1.0 All All All
Application Globus Globus Toolkit 3.2.0 All All All
Application Globus Globus Toolkit 4.0.0 All All All
Application Globus Globus Toolkit 4.1.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Globus Toolkit Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Exploit, Patch
[security-announce] Temporary File Handling Vulnerability MLIST www.globus.org Patch
Globus Toolkit Multiple Local Temporary File Handling Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690281 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for globus (5039ae61-2c9f-11db-8401-000ae42e9b93)

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