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CVE-2014-5260

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 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: 2014-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Xml-Dt Project Xml-Dt: through 0.63; 0.60, 0.61, 0.62

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/15/8
• https://bugs.debian.org/756566
• https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=AMBS/XML-DT-0.64/&source=AMBS/XML-DT-0.63/
• https://metacpan.org/source/AMBS/XML-DT-0.66/Changes
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/15/8
• https://bugs.debian.org/756566
• https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=AMBS/XML-DT-0.64/&source=AMBS/XML-DT-0.63/
• https://metacpan.org/source/AMBS/XML-DT-0.66/Changes

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