CVE-2008-1614
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
suPHP before 0.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a race condition that involves multiple symlink changes to point a file owned by a different user, or (2) a symlink to the directory of a different user, which is used to determine privileges.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1615)
- Published
- April 2, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1615 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- sebastian marsching / suphp
References
- http://lists.marsching.biz/pipermail/suphp/2008-March/001750.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29615(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29648
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29872
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1550
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28568
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1073/references
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439687
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41582
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00014.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00075.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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