CVE-2008-4986

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

Description

wims 3.62 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/env#####, (b) /tmp/sed#####, and (c) /tmp/referer-home.log temporary files, related to the (1) coqweb and (2) account.sh scripts.

Affected products

Georges Khaznadar Wims: 3.6.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496387
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/wims
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32244
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46510
http://bugs.debian.org/496387
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/wims
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32244
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46510

Get alerted when CVE-2008-4986 or the next vulnerability affects your stack