CVE-2013-0248

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Commons FileUpload versions 1.0 through 1.2.2

Description The default configuration of javax.servlet.context.tempdir in Apache Commons FileUpload uses the /tmp directory for uploaded files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via an unspecified symlink attack.

Recommendations For Apache Commons FileUpload versions 1.0 through 1.2.2, consider changing the default configuration of javax.servlet.context.tempdir to a directory that is not accessible by local users to prevent arbitrary file overwrites. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.