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CVE-2008-4474
freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in (1)…
High7.2EPSS 0.37%
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- mitre
Description
freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in (1) backup_radacct, (2) clean_radacct, (3) monthly_tot_stats, (4) tot_stats, and (5) truncate_radacct.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- 33151 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32170 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30901 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496389 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [debian-devel] 20080811 Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/freeradius-dialupadmin (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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