{"cve":"CVE-2008-2936","nvd":{"published":"2008-08-18T19:41:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:54:46.217","status":"Modified","description":"Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending a message.  NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges if there is a symlink to an init script.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-264"],"references":["ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/experimental/postfix-2.6-20080814.HISTORY","ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.3.15.HISTORY","ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.4.8.HISTORY","ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.5.4.HISTORY","http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.announce/110"],"products":["postfix:postfix"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:52:44.811608366+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2008-2936","score":0.00993,"percentile":0.62605,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}