CVE-2007-6131 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in scanbuttond 0.2.3, specifically affecting Red Hat Fedora Core. An attacker can exploit a symlink race condition on temporary files (scan.pnm and scan.jpg) within the buttonpressed.sh script to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required, with potential for partial integrity 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
f7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora_core:f7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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