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CVE-2008-5372

• 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: 2008-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

sdm-login in sdm-terminal 0.4.0b allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sdm.autologin.once temporary file.

Affected products

• Jonas Smedegaard Sdm-Terminal: 0.4.0b

References

• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00283.html
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00283.html

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