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CVE-2008-4938

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4938 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting aegis and aegis-web versions 4.24. Attackers can exploit a symlink race condition to overwrite arbitrary files by manipulating temporary files created by several scripts. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity due to its potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring medium attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aegis:aegis:4.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aegis:aegis-web:4.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 64th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / 496400
bugs.debian.org / 496402
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/aegis
Exploit
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/aegis-web
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31970
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44835
sourceforge.net / tracker/index.php
uvw.ru / report.lenny.txt
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
securityfocus.com / bid/30883