CVE-2008-1614

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2008-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

suPHP before 0.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a race condition that involves multiple symlink changes to point a file owned by a different user, or (2) a symlink to the directory of a different user, which is used to determine privileges.

Affected products

Sebastian Marsching Suphp: through 0.6.2

References

http://lists.marsching.biz/pipermail/suphp/2008-March/001750.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29615
http://secunia.com/advisories/29648
http://secunia.com/advisories/29872
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1550
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28568
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1073/references
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439687
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41582
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00014.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00075.html
http://lists.marsching.biz/pipermail/suphp/2008-March/001750.html

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