CVE-2024-5742

MEDIUM

GNU Nano 2.2.0-8.0 - Privilege Escalation via Emergency File Symlink

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6986
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9430
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (5)
gnu/nano 2.2.0 - 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
Published Jun 12, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026