Description
Vulnerability in (1) pine before 4.33 and (2) the pico editor, included with pine, allows local users local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- University of Washington Pico 3.x/4.x - File Overwrite EDB-20493 · local · Dec 11, 2000 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20010416 Immunix OS Security update for pine mailing-list
- 20010527 [ESA-20010509-01] pine temporary file handling vulnerabilities mailing-list
- MDKSA-2001:047 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2001:042 vendor-advisory
- pine-tmp-file-symlink(6367) vdb-entry