Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing, a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
nano
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Default version status: affected
0:2.9.8-3.el8_10 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Default version status: affected
0:5.6.1-6.el9 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Default version status: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Default version status: unknown
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Default version status: unknown
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6986 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9430 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00006.html ↗
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html ↗