CVE-2018-13054

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-13054
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-02 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-09-04 17:02:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of (for example) other users' icon files in _on_face_browse_menuitem_activated and _on_face_menuitem_activated. These icon files are written to the respective user's $HOME/.face location. If an unprivileged user prepares a symlink pointing to an arbitrary location, then this location will be overwritten with the icon content.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Linuxmint Cinnamon All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cinnamon-settings-users.py: fix symlink attack vulnerability by mgerstner · Pull Request #7683 · linuxmint/cinnamon · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA-1420-1] cinnamon security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Bug 1083067 – AUDIT-0: CVE-2018-13054: cinnamon: polkit-untracked-privilege: org.cinnamon.settings-users > possible symlink attack in cinnamon-settings-users.py MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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