ROX-Filer Default World Writeable File Permissions Vulnerability

BID:5172

Info

ROX-Filer Default World Writeable File Permissions Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5172
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jul 05 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 05 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Published in a ROX-Filer changelog.
Vulnerable: ROX Filer 1.2
ROX Filer 1.1.9
Not Vulnerable: ROX Filer 1.2.1

Discussion

ROX-Filer Default World Writeable File Permissions Vulnerability

ROX-Filer is a GUI file manager application which supports multi user access and is maintained by Thomas Leonard.

A problem in ROX-Filer could make it possible for unprivileged users to write to configuration files. The problem is with file permissions.

Exploit / POC

ROX-Filer Default World Writeable File Permissions Vulnerability

No exploit code is required.

Solution / Fix

ROX-Filer Default World Writeable File Permissions Vulnerability

Solution:
ROX-Filer 1.2.1 is not affected by this issue:


ROX Filer 1.1.9

ROX Filer 1.2

References

ROX-Filer Default World Writeable File Permissions Vulnerability

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