In short
- CVE-2014-5003 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting ciborg, ciborg (ciborg project).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.38%, higher than 32.2% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| ciborg RubyGems | = 3.0.0
| No fix yet |
| ciborg | = 3.0.0
| No fix yet |
Description
There is a /tmp file race condition in chef/travis-cookbooks/ci_environment/perlbrew/recipes/default.rb in the ciborg gem 3.0.0 when creating /tmp/perlbrew-installer. If a malicious local user creates the file first they can overwrite the contents with their own code executing it as the ciborg process owner.
NVD description
chef/travis-cookbooks/ci_environment/perlbrew/recipes/default.rb in the ciborg gem 3.0.0 for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/perlbrew-installer.
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