CVE-2014-2524
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (36th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-2560)
- Published
- August 20, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-2560 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- gnu / readline
- mageia / mageia
- mageia / mageia
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154(Broken Link)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132(Broken Link)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023(Issue Tracking)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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