CVE-2007-0476 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Gentoo Linux when installing specific versions of OpenLDAP via ebuild. The gencert.sh script insecurely creates temporary directories in /tmp, enabling local users to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack. Rated with a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.1.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:2.1.30:r9:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2.28CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:2.2.28:r7:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:2.3.30:r2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.