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CVE-2008-3931

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3931 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in javareconf within R 2.7.2, allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. Despite its potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:r_foundation:r:2.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-3931Low

R: Insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage (symlink attack possible)

Aug 24, 2008

References

bugs.debian.org / 496418
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/r-base-core
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/r-base-core-ra
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31647
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31996
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200809-13.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44736
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
securityfocus.com / bid/30878