CVE-2014-1838

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: 2014-03-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

Affected products

Logilab-Common: through 0.60.0
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

References

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57209
http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57209
http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051

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