CVE-2007-5200

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

hugin, as used on various operating systems including SUSE openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the hugin_debug_optim_results.txt temporary file.

Affected products

Opensuse: 10.2, 10.3

References

http://osvdb.org/42224
http://secunia.com/advisories/27229
http://secunia.com/advisories/27623
http://secunia.com/advisories/27653
http://secunia.com/advisories/27952
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-01.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26730
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332401
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=362851
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00199.html
http://osvdb.org/42224

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