CVE-2014-3986

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 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: 2014-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

include/tests_webservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis.*.unsorted file with an easily determined name.

Affected products

Cisofy Lynis: through 1.5.4; 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3

References

http://cisofy.com/files/lynis-1.5.5.tar.gz
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/05/14
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/06/12
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/07/3
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jun/21
http://cisofy.com/files/lynis-1.5.5.tar.gz
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/05/14
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/06/12
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/07/3
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jun/21

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