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CVE-2009-4193

• 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: 2009-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Merkaartor 0.14 allows local users to append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/merkaartor.log temporary file.

Affected products

• Merkaartor: 0.14

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548546
• http://osvdb.org/58389
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36897
• http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2320
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36529
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53486
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00869.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00870.html
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548546
• http://osvdb.org/58389
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36897
• http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2320

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