CVE-2007-5377

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The (1) tramp-make-temp-file and (2) tramp-make-tramp-temp-file functions in Tramp 2.1.10 extension for Emacs, and possibly earlier 2.1.x versions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

GNU Tramp: 2.1.10

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00132.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00158.html
http://osvdb.org/41752
http://secunia.com/advisories/27244
http://secunia.com/advisories/27343
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-22.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26072
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00132.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00158.html
http://osvdb.org/41752

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