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.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-06-12T08:53:02.256Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-21T07:02:53.182Z

Source :

redhat
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-5742 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gnu
  • Nano
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-5742.

URL Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6986 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9430 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5742 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00006.html cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5742 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5742 cve-icon
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