CVE-2008-4995

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: 2008-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

redirect.pl in bk2site 1.1.9 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/redirect.log temporary file. NOTE: this vulnerability is only limited to debug mode, which is disabled by default.

Affected products

Jose M.Vidal Bk2Site: 1.1.9

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496430
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/bk2site
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46543
http://bugs.debian.org/496430
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/bk2site
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46543

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