CVE-2013-0248 (GCVE-0-2013-0248)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-03-15 01:00
Modified
2026-10-07 18:28
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The default configuration of javax.servlet.context.tempdir in Apache Commons FileUpload 1.0 through 1.2.2 uses the /tmp directory for uploaded files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via an unspecified symlink attack.
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