CVE-2007-0007 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in GnuCash versions 2.0.4 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this by creating symbolic links to arbitrary files, causing GnuCash to overwrite them when it attempts to create its temporary trace files (gnucash.trace, qof.trace, and qof.trace.[PID]). This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.6, indicating low severity, as it requires local access and has low impact on confidentiality and availability, but allows for partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnucash:gnucash:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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