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CWE-59

45
CRITICAL
691
HIGH
425
MEDIUM
43
LOW
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7.8
CVE-2015-7724

AMD fglrx-driver before 15.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack. NOTE: This vulnerability exist

7.8
CVE-2015-6240

The chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins in ansible before 1.9.2 allow local users to escape a restricted environme

7.8
CVE-2017-8108

Unspecified tests in Lynis before 2.5.0 allow local users to write to arbitrary files or possibly gain privileges via a

7.8
CVE-2015-3315

Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to read, change the ownership of, or have other unspecified impac

7.8
CVE-2015-7529

sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a sy

7.8
CVE-2017-7501

It was found that versions of rpm before 4.13.0.2 use temporary files with predictable names when installing an RPM. An

7.8
CVE-2016-1255

The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common package in Debian wheezy before 134wheezy5, in Debian jessie before 165+de

7.5
CVE-2015-8860

The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an

7.5
CVE-2015-5705

Argument injection vulnerability in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a c

7.5
CVE-2017-1000115

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files

7.4
CVE-2017-15357

The setpermissions function in the auto-updater in Arq before 5.9.7 for Mac allows local users to gain root privileges v

7.1
CVE-2016-3108

The pulp-gen-nodes-certificate script in Pulp before 2.8.3 allows local users to leak the keys or write to arbitrary fil

6.7
CVE-2017-9525

In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer scrip

6.7
CVE-2017-12172

PostgreSQL 10.x before 10.1, 9.6.x before 9.6.6, 9.5.x before 9.5.10, 9.4.x before 9.4.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.20, and 9.2.

6.4
CVE-2017-7549

A flaw was found in instack-undercloud 7.2.0 as packaged in Red Hat OpenStack Platform Pike, 6.1.0 as packaged in Red Ha

6.1
CVE-2015-5700

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via

6.1
CVE-2015-5701

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files

6.1
CVE-2017-12258

A vulnerability in the web-based UI of Cisco Unified Communications Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attac

5.5
CVE-2016-4679

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. tvOS b

5.5
CVE-2016-7619

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchO

5.5
CVE-2017-2390

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3 is affected. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. tvOS b

5.5
CVE-2017-7418

ProFTPD before 1.3.5e and 1.3.6 before 1.3.6rc5 controls whether the home directory of a user could contain a symbolic l

5.5
CVE-2016-10374

perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current workin

5.5
CVE-2015-8326

The IPTables-Parse module before 1.6 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files owned by the current user.

5.5
CVE-2015-3149

The Hotspot component in OpenJDK8 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 allows local users to write to arbitra

5.5
CVE-2015-3156

The _write_config function in trove/guestagent/datastore/experimental/mongodb/service.py, reset_configuration function i

5.5
CVE-2015-3211

php-fpm allows local users to write to or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

5.5
CVE-2017-1301

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack. IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-ar

5.5
CVE-2011-2684

foo2zjs before 20110722dfsg-3ubuntu1 as packaged in Ubuntu, 20110722dfsg-1 as packaged in Debian unstable, and 20090908d

5.5
CVE-2017-8806

The Debian pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster, and pg_upgradecluster scripts, as distributed in the Debian postgresql-commo

5.5
CVE-2017-16611

In libXfont before 1.5.4 and libXfont2 before 2.0.3, a local attacker can open (but not read) files on the system as roo

5.5
CVE-2014-4978

The rs_filter_graph function in librawstudio/rs-filter.c in rawstudio might allow local users to truncate arbitrary file

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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.

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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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