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CWE-59

45
CRITICAL
691
HIGH
425
MEDIUM
43
LOW
1,232 CVEs · Page 16/25
7.8
CVE-2022-26704

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks and was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issu

7.8
CVE-2022-31216

Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create and write to a file anywhere on the file

7.8
CVE-2022-31217

Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create and write to a file anywhere on the file

7.8
CVE-2022-31218

Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create and write to a file anywhere on the file

7.8
CVE-2021-25261

Local privilege vulnerability in Yandex Browser for Windows prior to 22.5.0.862 allows a local, low privileged, attacker

7.8
CVE-2022-28225

Local privilege vulnerability in Yandex Browser for Windows prior to 22.3.3.684 allows a local, low privileged, attacker

7.8
CVE-2022-34008

Comodo Antivirus 12.2.2.8012 has a quarantine flaw that allows privilege escalation. To escalate privilege, a low-privil

7.8
CVE-2022-36336

A link following vulnerability in the scanning function of Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security agents

7.8
CVE-2021-23177

An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the t

7.8
CVE-2021-31566

An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times, access control

7.8
CVE-2022-2897

Measuresoft ScadaPro Server and Client (All Versions) do not properly resolve links before file access; this could allow

7.8
CVE-2022-34893

Trend Micro Security 2022 (consumer) has a link following vulnerability where an attacker with lower privileges could ma

7.8
CVE-2022-40710

A link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Deep Security 20 and Cloud One - Workload Security Agent for Windows could

7.8
CVE-2022-41973

multipath-tools 0.7.7 through 0.9.x before 0.9.2 allows local users to obtain root access, as exploited in conjunction w

7.8
CVE-2022-32905

This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13. Processing a mal

7.8
CVE-2022-44747

Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protec

7.8
CVE-2022-4563

A vulnerability was found in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is s

7.8
CVE-2022-45798

A link following vulnerability in the Damage Cleanup Engine component of Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One a

7.7
CVE-2022-22262

ROG Live Service’s function for deleting temp files created by installation has an improper link resolution before file

7.7
CVE-2022-31256

A Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') vulnerability in a script called by the sendmail system

7.5
CVE-2022-22585

An issue existed within the path validation logic for symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved path sanitization

7.5
CVE-2022-30333 KEV

RARLAB UnRAR before 6.12 on Linux and UNIX allows directory traversal to write to files during an extract (aka unpack) o

7.5
CVE-2022-25856

The package github.com/argoproj/argo-events/sensors/artifacts before 1.7.1 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the

7.5
CVE-2022-42725

Warpinator through 1.2.14 allows access outside of an intended directory, as demonstrated by symbolic directory links.

7.3
CVE-2022-27883

A link following vulnerability in Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 11.5 could allow an attacker to create a specially-craft

7.3
CVE-2022-31219

Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create and write to a file anywhere on the file

7.3
CVE-2022-40143

A link following local privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service

7.1
CVE-2021-44024

A link following denial-of-service vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One (on-prem and SaaS) and Trend Micro Worry-Free B

7.1
CVE-2021-45442

A link following denial-of-service vulnerability in Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security (on prem only) could allow

7.1
CVE-2022-21997

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

7.1
CVE-2022-26659

Docker Desktop installer on Windows in versions before 4.6.0 allows an attacker to overwrite any administrator writable

7.1
CVE-2022-27816

SWHKD 1.1.5 unsafely uses the /tmp/swhks.pid pathname. There can be data loss or a denial of service.

7.1
CVE-2022-30687

Trend Micro Maximum Security 2022 is vulnerable to a link following vulnerability that could allow a low privileged loca

7.1
CVE-2022-32450

AnyDesk 7.0.9 allows a local user to gain SYSTEM privileges via a symbolic link because the user can write to their own

7.1
CVE-2022-31250

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in keylime of openSUSE Tumbleweed allows local attackers to escal

7.0
CVE-2022-21919 KEV

Windows User Profile Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

7.0
CVE-2022-0017

An improper link resolution before file access ('link following') vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalP

7.0
CVE-2009-1143

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can bypass intended access restrictions on mount

6.7
CVE-2022-20050

In connsyslogger, there is a possible symbolic link following due to improper link resolution. This could lead to local

6.7
CVE-2022-20068

In mobile_log_d, there is a possible symbolic link following due to an improper link resolution. This could lead to loca

6.7
CVE-2022-20085

In netdiag, there is a possible symbolic link following due to an improper link resolution. This could lead to local esc

6.7
CVE-2021-42056

Thales Safenet Authentication Client (SAC) for Linux and Windows through 10.7.7 creates insecure temporary hid and lock

6.7
CVE-2022-21770

In sound driver, there is a possible information disclosure due to symlink following. This could lead to local informati

6.7
CVE-2021-35938

A symbolic link issue was found in rpm. It occurs when rpm sets the desired permissions and credentials after installing

6.7
CVE-2021-35939

It was found that the fix for CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501 was incomplete: the check was only implemented for the par

6.7
CVE-2009-1142

An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp

6.5
CVE-2022-25176

Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin 2648.va9433432b33c and earlier follows symbolic links to locations outside of the checko

6.5
CVE-2022-25177

Jenkins Pipeline: Shared Groovy Libraries Plugin 552.vd9cc05b8a2e1 and earlier follows symbolic links to locations outsi

6.5
CVE-2022-25179

Jenkins Pipeline: Multibranch Plugin 706.vd43c65dec013 and earlier follows symbolic links to locations outside of the ch

6.5
CVE-2021-44052

An improper link resolution before file access ('Link Following') vulnerability has been reported to affect QNAP device

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CWE-59?

CWE-59 (CWE-59) is a weakness category in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) system maintained by MITRE. It describes a class of software or hardware vulnerability that can lead to security issues.

How many CVEs are classified as CWE-59?

There are 1,879 CVE records associated with CWE-59 in our database. Of these, 45 are critical severity, 691 are high severity, and 425 are medium severity.

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