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CVE-2007-6209

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2007-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Util/difflog.pl in zsh 4.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• zsh: 4.3.4

References

• http://osvdb.org/42481
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27899
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26674
• http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2007/msg01060.html
• http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2007/msg01065.html
• http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2007/msg01066.html
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201022
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38812
• http://osvdb.org/42481
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27899
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26674
• http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2007/msg01060.html

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