Vulnerability in Red Hat Cman
CVE-2008-4192
The pserver_shutdown function in fence_egenera in cman 2.20080629 and 2.20080801 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/eglog temporary file.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (53.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 53.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Red Hat Cman — versions 2.20080629, 2.20080801
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/30898 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32390 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 (mailing-list)
- dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/cman
- secunia.com/advisories/32387 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/31887 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44845 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0419 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)