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CVE-2008-4970

18
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / 496371
dev.gentoo.org / ~rbu/security/debiantemp/lustre-tests
Exploit
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44819
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
securityfocus.com / bid/30911