CVE-2008-5299
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
chm2pdf 0.9 allows user-assisted local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .chm files in the (1) /tmp/chm2pdf/work or (2) /tmp/chm2pdf/orig temporary directories.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (25th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5276)
- Published
- December 1, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5276 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- karakas-online / chm2pdf
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501959
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053501.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053510.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32257
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43109
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31735
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0236
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45813
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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