CVE-2011-2185
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) a /tmp/fab.*.tar file or (2) certain other files in the top level of /tmp/.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-5872)
- Published
- July 27, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5872 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
- fabfile / fabric
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003
- http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz(Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062534.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/12
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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