CVE-2008-4953

CVSS V2 Medium 6.9 CVSS V3 None

Description

** DISPUTED ** firehol in firehol 1.256 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/.firehol-tmp-#####-*-* and (2) /tmp/firehol.conf temporary files. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that an attack "would require an attacker to create 1073741824*PID-RANGE symlinks."

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-4953

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2008-11-05T15:00:15

Last Modified Date
2009-07-20T04:00:00

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-59	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:firehol:firehol:1.256:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
6.9

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
3.4

Impact Score
10

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://bugs.debian.org/496424
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/firehol

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4953
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4953

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 11:14:42				Added to TrackCVE