CVE-2007-5207 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in guilt 0.27, affecting Debian guilt installations. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, which the application then overwrites when attempting to write to its guilt.log.[PID] temporary file. With a CVSS score of 3.3, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, leading to potential partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:guilt:0.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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