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CVE-2008-5377

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

pstopdf in CUPS 1.3.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/pstopdf.log temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-1333.

Affected products

• cups: 1.3.8

References

• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html
• http://uvw.ru/report.sid.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7550
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html
• http://uvw.ru/report.sid.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7550

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