CVE-2008-4986 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in WIMS version 3.62, allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files created by the coqweb and account.sh scripts. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
3.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:georges_khaznadar:wims:3.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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