CVE-2008-4970 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Lustre 1.6.5, specifically within the runiozone utility. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to /tmp/iozone.log, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with local access and medium attack complexity leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lustre:lustre-tests:1.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lustre:lustre-tests:1.6.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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