CVE-2014-5003 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the ciborg gem 3.0.0 for Ruby. The vulnerability allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/perlbrew-installer within the chef/travis-cookbooks/ci_environment/perlbrew/recipes/default.rb script. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this flaw requires local access and low attack complexity, potentially leading to high integrity impact (arbitrary file write) but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ciborg_project:ciborg:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* |
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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