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CVE-2008-0806

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CVE-2008-0806 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in wyrd version 1.4.3b, allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.6, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.3b_3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:paul_pelzl:wyrd:1.4.3b_3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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-2008-0806

Wyrd uses insecure temporary file

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Exploit
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/29009
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29113
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00825.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00841.html
securityfocus.com / bid/27848