webapp-config: Insecure temporary file handling The webapp-config utility insecurely creates temporary files in a world writable directory, potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary commands. webapp-config 2005-06-17 2007-12-30 91785 local 1.11 1.11

webapp-config is a Gentoo Linux utility to help manage the installation of web-based applications.

Eric Romang discovered webapp-config uses a predictable temporary filename while processing certain options, resulting in a race condition.

Successful exploitation of the race condition would allow an attacker to disrupt the operation of webapp-config, or execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the user running webapp-config. A local attacker could use a symlink attack to create or overwrite files with the permissions of the user running webapp-config.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All webapp-config users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/webapp-config-1.11" CVE-2005-1707 jaervosz taviso koon