CVE-2014-4978 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Rawstudio and Fedora Project's Rawstudio package. It allows a local attacker to truncate arbitrary files by exploiting a symlink attack on temporary files, specifically /tmp/rs-filter-graph.png or /tmp/rs-filter-graph. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires local access and low attack complexity, with a high impact on integrity but no impact on confidentiality or availability. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0-1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rawstudio:rawstudio:2.0-1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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