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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2024-06-12T08:53:02.256Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:12:50.171Z

Reserved: 2024-06-07T12:22:38.441Z

Link: CVE-2024-5742

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:18:07.052Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-06-12T09:15:23.037

Modified: 2024-09-17T00:15:52.653

Link: CVE-2024-5742

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-04-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-5742 - Bugzilla