tauex in Tuning and Analysis Utilities (TAU) 2.16.4 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.
Vendor
uoregon vulnerabilities
2 published CVES affecting uoregon, from public sources (CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV).
- Total
- 2
- Critical
- 0
- High
- 0
- Medium
- 2
- Low
- 0
- Unscored
- 0
- CISA KEV
- 0
Products
Latest uoregon CVEs
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MediumCVSS 6.9 EPSS 0.39%
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MediumCVSS 6.9 EPSS 0.40%
tau 2.16.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/makefile.tau..##### or (2) /tmp/makefile.tau.##### temporary file, related to the (a) tau_cxx, (b) tau_f90, and (c) tau_cc scripts.
Sources: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV and public exploit-reference metadata. Product matching comes from the published CVE records. A proof-of-concept means public code exists; it is not evidence of exploitation.