CVE-2011-4617 (GCVE-0-2011-4617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-12-31 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:09
VLAI?
Summary
virtualenv.py in virtualenv before 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a certain file in /tmp/.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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