CVE-2014-1859 Numpy arbitrary file write via symlink attack

What is CVE-2014-1859?

CVE-2014-1859 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 8 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

(1) core/tests/test_memmap.py, (2) core/tests/test_multiarray.py, (3) f2py/f2py2e.py, and (4) lib/tests/test_io.py in NumPy before 1.8.1 allow local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1859?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including numpy. It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Numpy Numpy, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1859?

Upgrade numpy to 1.8.1 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2014-1859 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1859 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora

• CVE-2024-4577 PHP-CGI OS Command Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-39226 Grafana Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-5544 VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS OpenSLP Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-4947 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-4671 Google Chromium Visuals Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2fc2-6r4j-p65h, PYSEC-2018-34.