CVE-2008-4085

medium

Description

plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928

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

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154

http://secunia.com/advisories/31617

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

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-15

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.4

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

Severity: Medium

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