CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4939

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2008-11-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-11-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• apertium apertium 3.0.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References