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CVE-2014-1638

LOW · CVSS 3.3 EPSS 0.36%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2014-01-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.3. It affects Debian.

CVE
CVE-2014-1638
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.3
EPSS
0.36%
Debian

Original NVD Description

(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.