CVE-2008-5312

no score yetEPSS 0.3%

mailscanner 4.55.10 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) panda-autoupdate.new, (4) trend-autoupdate.new, and (5) rav-autoupdate.new scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5140.

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2008-12-03
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mailscanner:mailscanner

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353#44
http://secunia.com/advisories/33117
http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/29/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32557

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