Vulnerability in Openswan
CVE-2008-4190
The IPSEC livetest tool in Openswan 2.4.12 and earlier, and 2.6.x through 2.6.16, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the (1) ipseclive.conn and (2) ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files. NOTE: in many distributions and the upstream version, this tool has been disabled.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (64.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Openswan — versions 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6
- Xelerance Openswan — versions 2.3.1, 2.4.0, 2.4.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/34472 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 (mailing-list)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501624/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/34182 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501640/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10078 (signature, vdb-entry)
- dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openswan
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31243 (Patch, vdb-entry)