CVE-2008-4191

critical

Description

extract-table.pl in Emacspeak 26 and 28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the extract-table.csv temporary file.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00012.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00010.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45237

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-4174

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460435

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31241

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/32071

http://secunia.com/advisories/31880

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

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496431

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-24

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00407