CVE-2008-1901 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in aptlinex before version 0.91, specifically affecting Debian aptlinex. An attacker can exploit this by performing a symlink attack on the gambas-apt.lock temporary file, leading to arbitrary file overwrites. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is considered high severity, allowing an unauthenticated local attacker to achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.6-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:aptlinex:0.6-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.7-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:aptlinex:0.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:aptlinex:0.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8-2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:aptlinex:0.8-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:aptlinex:0.9-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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