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medium 4.4

CVE-2011-2185 json

Fabric vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files

published 2011-07-27 15 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-xwg2-qc6c-7c3q , PYSEC-2026-808 , EUVD-2022-5872

cvss
4.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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/.

Patch / fix

  • pypi fabric 1.1.0
  • fabric Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2185

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-2185 updated cvss 3.3

fabric: Use of insecure temporary file by uploading templates and projects to remote hosts

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi fabric
<1.1.0
1.1.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.