CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4108
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh (aka the generic FAQ wizard moving tool) in Python 2.4.5 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a tmp$RANDOM.tmp temporary file. NOTE: there may not be common usage scenarios in which tmp$RANDOM.tmp is located in an untrusted directory.
Affected configurations
• python software foundation python 2.4.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498899 bugs.debian.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122148330903513&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152861617434&w=2 marc.info
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4274 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31184 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020904 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2659 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462326 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45161 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498899 bugs.debian.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122148330903513&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152861617434&w=2 marc.info
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4274 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31184 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020904 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2659 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462326 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45161 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com