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Firewall Builder Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Low
Family
Family
General
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
3.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is running Firewall Builder and is prone to Privilege Escalation vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to the application generating scripts, which are using temporary files in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attack.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Firewall Builder versions 3.0.4 to 3.0.6 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 3.0.7