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CVE-2008-4477

Date: October 7, 2008

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.

Severity Score

8.4

Related Resources (13)

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

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32183

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

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

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4477

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

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

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

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

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-4477

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4477

Severity Score

8.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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