Vulnerability in Apertium

CVE-2008-4939

apertium 3.0.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/#####.lex.cc, (b) /tmp/#####.deformat.l, (c) /tmp/#####.reformat.l, (d) /tmp/#####docxorig, (e) /tmp/#####docxsalida.zip, (f) /tmp/#####xlsxembed, (g) /tmp/#####xlsxorig, and (h) /tmp/#####xslxsalida.zip temporary files, related to the (1) apertium-gen-deformat, (2) apertium-gen-reformat, and (3) apertium scripts.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Apertium — versions 3.0.7
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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