CVE-2008-4998 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4998?

CVE-2008-4998 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Nov 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

postinst in twiki 4.1.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/twiki temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating "this bug is invalid.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4998?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Twiki Twiki.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4998?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4998 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2008-4998 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4998 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2008-5305 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-1751 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2005-3056 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-7236 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2006-6071 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c2m7-2r7v-phq7.