CVE-2011-3351 Information

Description

openvas-scanner before 2011-09-11 creates a temporary file insecurely when generating OVAL system characteristics document with the ovaldi integrated tool enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3351 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3351 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3351

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.1