{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2958 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2008-2958 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Jul 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-2958 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-2958 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Jul 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2958 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2958/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2958/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-2958","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2958/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-2958","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2958","GHSA-9qcj-gpqg-c7cw"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"checkinstall installwatch","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in checkinstall and installwatch to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary directories.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"checkinstall","vendor":"checkinstall"}],"cvss":{"score":4.4,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"Race condition in (1) checkinstall 1.6.1 and (2) installwatch allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and have other impacts via symlink and possibly other attacks on temporary working directories.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Race condition in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2958","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"race_condition","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2959"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2957"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-07-01","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can exploit a race condition in checkinstall and installwatch to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary directories.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2958/"}