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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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