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CVE-2008-4952

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4952 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in emacs-jabber 0.7.91, affecting Emacs and emacs-jabber. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary log files in /tmp, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.91CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:emacs:emacs-jabber:0.7.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 46th 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 / 496428
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/emacs-jabber
Exploit
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46409
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2