CVE-2014-0177

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: yes
Published: 2014-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The am function in lib/hub/commands.rb in hub before 1.12.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary patch file.

Affected products

GitHub Hub: through 1.12.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/58273
https://github.com/github/hub/commit/016ec99d25b1cb83cb4367e541177aa431beb600
http://secunia.com/advisories/58273
https://github.com/github/hub/commit/016ec99d25b1cb83cb4367e541177aa431beb600

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