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Powerlevel10k before 1.20.19 Symlink Following via Instant Prompt Temporary File

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Severity
medium
Date
Affecting

  • powerlevel10k >= 0, < 1.20.19

CWE
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
CVSS
4.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
George Chen
Description
Powerlevel10k before 1.20.19 contains a symlink following vulnerability in _p9k_dump_instant_prompt that allows local attackers to overwrite victim-writable files via a predictable temporary path. Attackers can pre-plant symlinks at p10k-instant-prompt-output-<user>-<pid> in TMPDIR, guessing the victim's shell PID, so shell startup truncates and overwrites targeted files.

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