CVE-2008-5313

CVSS V2 Medium 6.9 CVSS V3 None
Description
mailscanner 4.68.8 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) avast-autoupdate, and (4) f-prot-6-autoupdate scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/; the (5) bitdefender-wrapper, (6) kaspersky-wrapper, (7) clamav-wrapper, and (8) rav-wrapper scripts in /etc/MailScanner/wrapper/; the (9) Quarantine.pm, (10) TNEF.pm, (11) MessageBatch.pm, (12) WorkArea.pm, and (13) SA.pm scripts in /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/; (14) /usr/sbin/MailScanner; and (15) scripts that load the /etc/MailScanner/mailscanner.conf.with.mcp configuration file.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2008-5313
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2008-12-03T17:30:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2010-12-28T05:00:00
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:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.69.9-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.70.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.71.10-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.72.5-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.73.4-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 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/2008/11/29/1
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
http://secunia.com/advisories/33117 Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5313
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5313
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 11:07:17 Added to TrackCVE