CVE-2011-2185

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2011-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

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/.

Affected products

Fabfile Fabric: through 1.0.2; 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5 (+4)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003
http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz
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
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003
http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz
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

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