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CVE-2008-5148

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5148 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in geda-gnetlist version 1.4.0, specifically within the sch2eaglepos.sh script. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, causing the script to overwrite that file when it attempts to create a temporary file in /tmp. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with medium attack complexity requiring local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:geda:gnetlist:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2026-07-25
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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5148Moderate

geda-gnetlist insecure temporary file use

Aug 13, 2008

References

lists.debian.org / debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html
secunia.com / advisories/32806
secunia.com / advisories/32875
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00431.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00475.html
uvw.ru / report.sid.txt
Exploit