cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 31, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 1, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination.
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