CVE-2007-4998

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

cp, when running with an option to preserve symlinks on multiple OSes, allows local, user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using crafted directories containing multiple source files that are copied to the same destination.

Affected products

Linux kernel: all versions

References

http://osvdb.org/43228
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023
http://osvdb.org/43228
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2023

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