CVE-2008-3928 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Honeyd 1.5c, specifically within the test.sh script. An attacker could exploit this by using a symlink attack on a temporary file, potentially overwriting arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and moderate attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:debian:honeyd_common:1.5:c_5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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