Arbitrary file overwrite via predictable log symlinks
Published Jan 28, 2025 · Updated Apr 30, 2026
Insecure log-file creation in Google glog before 1.2.4 allows local users to overwrite sensitive files through planted symlinks. The createInDir path generates predictable names in a widely writable log directory and previously used os.Create, which follows an attacker-planted symlink and truncates its target. Exploitation requires a privileged glog-using process to create the predicted filename after an unprivileged local user plants the link; the consequence is arbitrary file overwrite with that process's rights.
Summary
What happened
Insecure log-file creation in Google glog before 1.2.4 allows local users to overwrite sensitive files through planted symlinks. The createInDir path generates predictable names in a widely writable log directory and previously used os.Create, which follows an attacker-planted symlink and truncates its target. Exploitation requires a privileged glog-using process to create the predicted filename after an unprivileged local user plants the link; the consequence is arbitrary file overwrite with that process's rights.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-45339
- Published
- Jan 28, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 30, 2026
- Vendor
- Product
- glog (Go)
- Classifications
- CWE-61, CWE-377
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 28, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 30, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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