CVE-2009-4193 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Merkaartor 0.14. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, causing the application to append data to it via the /tmp/merkaartor.log temporary file. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.3, indicating low impact (partial integrity and availability) and requiring local access with medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:merkaartor:merkaartor:0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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