CVE-2008-4977

2008-11-0611:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

postfix vulnerability

local users

symlink attack

arbitrary files

vendor dispute

AI Score

6.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

postfix_groups.pl in Postfix 2.5.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/postfix_groups.stdout, (2) /tmp/postfix_groups.stderr, and (3) /tmp/postfix_groups.message temporary files. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating "This is not a real issue … users would have to edit a script under /usr/lib to enable it.