CVE-2008-4477

medium

Description

alert.d/test.alert in mon 0.99.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the test.alert.log temporary file.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45738

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-4458

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

http://www.us.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1648

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31597

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

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:214

http://secunia.com/advisories/32183

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html

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

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496398

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-10-08

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00027