CVE-2007-5200
hugin, as used on various operating systems including SUSE openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the hugin_debug_optim_results.txt temporary
02 Description
hugin, as used on various operating systems including SUSE openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the hugin_debug_optim_results.txt temporary
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 29.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-10-14 18:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-10-04
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d38560820ab9ee7bcf1fbef57221468120a6b0078d25e6511d4ecd4fd4f33fb9
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com27623http://secunia.com/advisories/27623
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200712-01http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-01.xml
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2007-2989https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00199.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=362851
- secunia.com27952http://secunia.com/advisories/27952
- secunia.com27653http://secunia.com/advisories/27653
- secunia.com27229http://secunia.com/advisories/27229
- www.securityfocus.com26730http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26730
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332401
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2007:020http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html
- osvdb.org42224http://osvdb.org/42224
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- hugin Fixed in 0.6.1-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- hugin Fixed in 0.6.1-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- hugin Fixed in 0.6.1-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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