CVE-2008-1569

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 and earlier allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files that are used when creating a socket.

Affected products

Policyd-Weight: through 0.1.14

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29553
http://secunia.com/advisories/29738
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531
http://www.osvdb.org/43888
http://www.policyd-weight.org/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28480
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41565
http://secunia.com/advisories/29553
http://secunia.com/advisories/29738
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml

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