CVE-2008-5312 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in MailScanner versions prior to 4.74.16-1. An attacker with local access could exploit a symlink race condition in several autoupdate scripts to overwrite arbitrary files, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSS score is 6.9, indicating a medium to high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.55.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.55.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.56.8-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.56.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.57.7-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.57.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.58.9-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.58.9-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.59.4-2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.59.4-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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