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CVE-2008-4978

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4978 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Radiance 3R9+20080530. It allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on various temporary files created by scripts like optics2rad and pdelta. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity, but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:radiance:radiance:3:r9:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
31.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
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 / 496433
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/radiance
Exploit
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44846
uvw.ru / report.lenny.txt
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
securityfocus.com / bid/30953