CVE-2008-1569 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting policyd-weight versions 0.1.14 beta-16 and earlier, including its Debian packages. An attacker could exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files created during socket operations, allowing them to modify or delete arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability requires local access and moderate attack complexity, resulting in partial impact to integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.1.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:policyd-weight:policyd-weight:*:beta16:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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