CVE-2008-4941 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in arb-common versions 0.0.20071207.1 and earlier, affecting the arb_project. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on specific temporary files created by the arb_fastdnaml and dszmconnect.pl scripts. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires medium attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:arb_project:arb-common:0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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