CVE-2014-1624

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.get_runtime_dir function in python-xdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a victim-owned location, then replacing it with a symlink to an attacker-controlled location once the get_runtime_dir function is called.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.3/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 28, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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