CVE-2008-4959 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in gpsdrive-scripts versions 2.10~pre4 and earlier. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack targeting several temporary files within the /tmp directory. 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, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gpsdrive:gpsdrive-scripts:2.10:pre4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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