CVE-2014-2893

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 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: 2014-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The GetHTMLRunDir function in the scan-build utility in Clang 3.5 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary directories with predictable names.

Affected products

llvm Clang: through 3.5
Opensuse: 13.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00038.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/16/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/20/1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744817
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00038.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/16/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/20/1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744817

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