CVE Database · CVE-2014-2524
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
0.43%
Published
Aug 20, 2014
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (19)
References (18)