{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5394 exists.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2008-5394 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Dec 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-2008-5394 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-5394 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Dec 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5394 exists.\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-2008-5394/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5394/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-5394","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5394/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-5394","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5394","DSA-1709-1","GHSA-5848-87gf-wvqv"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux login utility","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local users in the utmp group can overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary files, potentially leading to privilege escalation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"shadow","vendor":"debian"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"description":"/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2008-12-01","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2008-12-01","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"7313","stars":null,"title":"Debian - Symlink In Login Arbitrary File Ownership"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-5394","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":12,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-5395"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-5393"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-12-09","related":[{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2011-0721","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2011-02-18"},{"cvss_score":4.6,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2004-1001","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2004-11-04"},{"cvss_score":3.7,"headline":"Misconfiguration in n/a","id":"CVE-2006-1174","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2006-05-28"}],"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)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local users in the utmp group can overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary files, potentially leading to privilege escalation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5394/"}