CVE-2009-3304

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

GForge 4.5.14, 4.7 rc2, and 4.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on authorized_keys files in users' home directories, related to deb-specific/ssh_dump_update.pl and cronjobs/cvs-cron/ssh_create.php.

Affected products

Gforge: 4.5.14, 4.7-rc2, 4.8.2

References

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch13.diff.gz
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1945
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37195
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch13.diff.gz
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1945
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37195

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