CVE-2024-5742 Information

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574