CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7490

Published: Nov 10, 2016 | Modified: Dec 02, 2016

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7490
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

The installation script studioexpressinstall for Teradata Studio Express 15.12.00.00 creates files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious local user could create a symlink in /tmp and possibly clobber system files or perhaps elevate privileges.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Studio_express	Teradata	15.12.00.00 (including)	15.12.00.00 (including)

References

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