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CVE-2008-5007

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5007 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in lazarus 0.9.24, specifically within the create_lazarus_export_tgz.sh script. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files or directories, leading to the overwriting or deletion of arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and moderate attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lazarus:lazarus:0.9.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 60th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5007Low

lazarus: Multiple insecure auxiliary /tmp files usage (symlink attack possible)

Aug 24, 2008

References

bugs.debian.org / 496377
code.google.com / p/bollin/source/browse/lazarus/trunk/debian/patches/07_sh_using_tmp.dpatch
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/lazarus-src
Exploit
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44824
uvw.ru / report.lenny.txt
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
securityfocus.com / bid/30917