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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2014-5003

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

"chef/travis-cookbooks/ci_environment/perlbrew/recipes/default.rb" in the ciborg gem for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/perlbrew-installer.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published