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CVE-2008-5379

• 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

netdisco-mibs-installer 1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/netdisco-mibs-0.6.tar.gz temporary file, related to the (1) netdisco-mibs-install and (2) netdisco-mibs-download scripts.

Affected products

• Oliver Gorwits Netdisco Mibs Installer: 1.0

References

• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html

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