In short
- CVE-2014-4996 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting VladTheEnterprising, vladtheenterprising (vladtheenterprising project).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.43%, higher than 37.5% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
Description
lib/vlad/dba/mysql.rb in the VladTheEnterprising gem 0.2 for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/my.cnf.#{target_host}.
NVD description
lib/vlad/dba/mysql.rb in the VladTheEnterprising gem 0.2 for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/my.cnf.#{target_host}.
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