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HistorySep 18, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2008-4108

2008-09-1800:00:00
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9

CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh (aka the generic FAQ wizard moving tool) in
Python 2.4.5 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a
symlink attack on a tmp$RANDOM.tmp temporary file. NOTE: there may not be
common usage scenarios in which tmp$RANDOM.tmp is located in an untrusted
directory.

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur example script only
jdstrand shipped in /usr/share/doc/python2.[45]/examples in 8.04

CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

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