CVE-2008-1570

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the create_lockpath function in policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files by creating the LOCKPATH directory, then modifying it after the symbolic link check occurs. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1569.

Affected products

Policyd-Weight: 0.1.14_beta-14

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29738
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/43888
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41570
http://secunia.com/advisories/29738
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/43888
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41570

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