CVE-2008-4946 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in convirt 0.8.2, specifically affecting the convirture convirt product. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, which the application's provision.sh scripts then overwrite due to insecure temporary file handling in /tmp/set_output. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9 (High), indicating a local attack vector with medium complexity, allowing for complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:convirture:convirt:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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