CVE-2008-4947

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: yes
Published: 2008-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

dhis-dummy-log-engine in dhis-server 5.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/dhis-dummy-log-engine.log temporary file.

Affected products

Guus Sliepen Dhis-Server: through 5.3

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496388
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dhis-server
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30900
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://bugs.debian.org/496388
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dhis-server
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30900
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

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