{"id":"CVE-2018-19044","details":"keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.","modified":"2026-05-17T11:54:00.353154634Z","published":"2018-11-08T20:29:00.323Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2020:0779-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10893-1"],"database_specific":{},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2285"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-01"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015141"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/commit/04f2d32871bb3b11d7dc024039952f2fe2750306"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/issues/1048"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}