CVE-2008-4995

2008-11-0719:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

redirect.pl in bk2site 1.1.9 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/redirect.log temporary file. NOTE: this vulnerability is only limited to debug mode, which is disabled by default.

References

bugs.debian.org/496430

dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/bk2site

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46543