CVE-2008-4476

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: none known
Published: 2008-10-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.

Affected products

Sympa: 5.3.4

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496405
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31458
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30727
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44499
http://bugs.debian.org/496405
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969

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