Symlink Attack Vulnerability in deepin-clone

CVE-2019-13227 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

In GUI mode, deepin-clone before 1.1.3 creates a log file at the fixed path /tmp/.deepin-clone.log as root, and follows symlinks there. An unprivileged user can prepare a symlink attack there to create or overwrite files in arbitrary file system locations. The content is not attacker controlled.

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