A vulnerability was found in ELM 2.4. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code of the component Filter Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-362. The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

local users can execute commands as other users and read other users files through the filter command in the elm elm-2.4 mail package using a symlink attack.

The weakness was released 01/01/1998. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-1999-0114. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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