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CVE-2008-5312

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9 EPSS 0.30%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-12-03 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.9. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2008-5312
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.9
EPSS
0.30%

Original NVD Description

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.