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CVE-2008-4951

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4951 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in dtc 0.29.6, specifically affecting the dtc-common component from gplhost. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary log files in /tmp, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.29.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gplhost:dtc-common:0.29.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 52nd 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 / 496362
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/dtc-common
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46411
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2