CVE-2008-5312

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

03/12/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

mailscanner 4.55.10 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) panda-autoupdate.new, (4) trend-autoupdate.new, and (5) rav-autoupdate.new scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5140.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.55.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.56.8-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.57.7-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.58.9-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.59.4-2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.60.8-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.61.7-2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.62.9-3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.63.8-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.64.3-2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.65.3-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.66.5-3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.67.6-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8-1:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.55.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.56.8-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.57.7-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.58.9-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.59.4-2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.60.8-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.61.7-2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.62.9-3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.63.8-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.64.3-2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.65.3-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.66.5-3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.67.6-1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8-1:::::::*

CVE-2008-5312

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools