vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-5742

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 12, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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