oss-security - CVE Request -- fabric -- Use of insecure temporary file by uploading templates and projects to remote hosts

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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:21:51 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Steve Kemp <steve@...ve.org.uk>, Silas Sewell <silas@...ell.ch>
Subject: CVE Request -- fabric -- Use of insecure temporary file by uploading
 templates and projects to remote hosts

Hello, Josh, Steve, vendors,

   It was found that fabric, a simple Pythonic remote deployment tool,
used insecure way for creation of temporary files, when uploading
template text files and project files to a remote system. A local
attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink attacks to upload
sensitive information to remote host or to overwrite certain local
system files.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462

Could you allocate a CVE id for this?

Thank you & Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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