CVE-2014-3982: Cisofy Lynis

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

include/tests_webservers in Lynis before 1.5.5 on AIX allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/lynis.##### file.

Affected products

• Cisofy Lynis: up to and including 1.5.4; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only

Published 2014-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.