CVE-2014-2524 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting GNU readline versions prior to 6.3 patch 3, as well as Fedora, Mageia, and OpenSUSE distributions. It allows a local attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. With a CVSS score of 3.3, this vulnerability has low severity, requiring medium attack complexity and resulting in partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:readline:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:readline:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:readline:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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