Description
The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact.
References
- 1011099 vdb-entry
- 9385 vdb-entry
- 20040829 CuteNews News.txt writable to world mailing-list
- cutenews-newstxt-world-writable(17161) vdb-entry