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CVE-2007-6209

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6209 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in zsh version 4.3.4, specifically within the Util/difflog.pl script. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zsh:zsh:4.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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-2007-6209Low

zsh insecure /tmp file usage

Dec 2, 2007

References

osvdb.org / 42481
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/27899
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/38812
securityfocus.com / bid/26674
zsh.org / mla/workers/2007/msg01060.html
zsh.org / mla/workers/2007/msg01065.html
zsh.org / mla/workers/2007/msg01066.html