CVE-2008-3927

medium

Description

genmsgidx in Tiger 3.2.2 allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44732

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30876

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

http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

http://secunia.com/advisories/31659

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/tiger

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496415

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-04

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00022