CVE-2008-5312

medium

Description

mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) panda-autoupdate.new, (4) trend-autoupdate.new, and (5) rav-autoupdate.new scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5140.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1

http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog

http://secunia.com/advisories/33117

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-12-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

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

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024