Vulnerability in Mailscanner

CVE-2008-5312

mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) panda-autoupdate.new, (4) trend-autoupdate.new, and (5) rav-autoupdate.new scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5140.

EPSS: 0.003 (22.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Mailscanner — versions 4.55.10, 4.56.8-1, 4.57.7-1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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