CVE-2007-5200

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5200
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-10-14 18:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionhugin, as used on various operating systems including SUSE openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the hugin_debug_optim_results.txt temporary file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.3 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-59 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 10.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 10.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
hugin Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Hugin: Insecure temporary file creation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Hugin "hugin_debug_optim_results.txt" Insecure Temporary File - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: hugin-0.6.1-11.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
362851 – CVE-2007-5200 hugin unsafe temporary file usage [F7] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Fedora update for hugin - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for hugin - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/42224 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Bug 332401 – CVE-2007-5200 hugin unsafe temporary file usage af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
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