CVE-2008-1078
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (44th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1089)
- Published
- February 29, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1089 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gentoo / linux
- rpath / rpath linux
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29144(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29187(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29694(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33400(Vendor Advisory)
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28044
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00273.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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