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CVE-2014-5003

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2018-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

chef/travis-cookbooks/ci_environment/perlbrew/recipes/default.rb in the ciborg gem 3.0.0 for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/perlbrew-installer.

Affected products

• Ciborg Project Ciborg: 3.0.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/07/24
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/17/5
• http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/ciborg-3.0.0.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/07/24
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/17/5
• http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/ciborg-3.0.0.html

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