CVE-2008-5137 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in tkman 2.2, where an attacker can overwrite arbitrary files. This is achieved through a symlink attack on temporary files created in /tmp. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with local access and medium attack complexity, leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tkman:tkman:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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