CVE-2008-5313 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting MailScanner versions prior to 4.74.16-1. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on various temporary files used by MailScanner's autoupdate, wrapper, and core scripts. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with medium attack complexity requiring local access. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.68.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.68.8-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.68.8-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.69.9-3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.69.9-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.70.7-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.70.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.71.10-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mailscanner:mailscanner:4.71.10-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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