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CVE-2011-2185
Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) a /tmp/fab.*.tar file or (2) certain other…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.33%
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- redhat
Description
Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) a /tmp/fab.*.tar file or (2) certain other files in the top level of /tmp/.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIfabricGHSA-xwg2-qc6c-7c3q (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- [oss-security] 20110606 Re: CVE Request -- fabric -- Use of insecure temporary file by uploading templates and projects to remote hosts (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629003 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-8964 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110603 CVE Request -- fabric -- Use of insecure temporary file by uploading templates and projects to remote hosts (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710462 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/Fabric-1.1.0.tar.gz (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xwg2-qc6c-7c3q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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