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GSD-2014-4995
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2014-06-30 00:00Details
VladTheEnterprising Gem for Ruby contains a flaw as the program creates
temporary files insecurely. It is possible for a local attacker to use
a symlink attack against the /tmp/my.cnf.#{target_host} file they can
overwrite arbitrary files, gain access to the MySQL root password,
or inject arbitrary commands.
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GSD-2014-4996
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2014-06-30 00:00Details
VladTheEnterprising Gem for Ruby contains a flaw as the program creates
temporary files insecurely. It is possible for a local attacker to use
a symlink attack against the /tmp/my.cnf.#{target_host} file they can
overwrite arbitrary files, gain access to the MySQL root password,
or inject arbitrary commands.
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