CVE-2014-5254

Publication date 21 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.7 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

xcfa before 5.0.1 creates temporary files insecurely which could allow local users to launch a symlink attack and overwrite arbitrary files.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xcfa 19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes

seth-arnold

Extensive unsafe use of /tmp leads me to believe the problems extend beyond just symlink or just hardlink issues, thus I'm not tagging this with the symlink-restriction or hardlink-restriction tags and I'm setting the Priority to "medium" rather than "low" as a result.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.7 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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