CVE-2008-5312

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…

published December 3, 2008

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00305 · 21.9th percentile
Published
2008-12-03T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 DEC 17:00Z
    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…
    cvelistv5