CVE-2007-5718 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in vobcopy 0.5.14, affecting Debian Linux and vobcopy itself. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files (/tmp/vobcopy.bla or /tmp/vobcopy_0.5.14.log) to append data to or create arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N), this vulnerability requires local access and low attack complexity, primarily impacting integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.5.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vobcopy:vobcopy:0.5.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
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