CVE-2014-1638 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting debian localepurge versions prior to 0.7.3.2. It arises from improper temporary file handling in debian/postrm and debian/localepurge.config, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. With a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and moderate attack complexity to achieve partial integrity and availability impact. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.7.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:localepurge:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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