Vulnerability in Debian Mailscanner
CVE-2008-5140
trend-autoupdate.new in mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/opr.ini.##### or (2) /tmp/lpt*.zip 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: 0.003 (23.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 23.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Debian Mailscanner — versions 4.55.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/33117 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32730 (third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46725 (vdb-entry)
- lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html (mailing-list)
- www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32376 (vdb-entry)