CVE-2008-4983 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in scilab-bin version 4.1.2, allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on various temporary files created by scilink, scidoc, and scidem scripts. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a local attack vector and medium attack complexity. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
4.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:scilab:scilab-bin:4.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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