CVE-2008-4940 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in aptoncd version 0.1, specifically within the xmlfile.py script. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, allowing them to overwrite that file when aptoncd attempts to write to its temporary file in /tmp. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, though it requires local access and medium attack complexity. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aptoncd:aptoncd:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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