CVE detail

CVE-2014-1420 — CVE-2014-1420

Published 2020-09-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor canonical · Product ubuntu-ui-toolkit · Source nvd

LOW

severity

CVSS-derived band

3.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0050

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

40.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

On desktop, Ubuntu UI Toolkit's StateSaver would serialise data on tmp/ files which an attacker could use to expose potentially sensitive data. StateSaver would also open files without the O_EXCL flag. An attacker could exploit this to launch a symlink attack, though this is partially mitigated by symlink and hardlink restrictions in Ubuntu. Fixed in 1.1.1188+14.10.20140813.4-0ubuntu1.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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