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CVE-2008-5256
The AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp in Sun Innotek VirtualBox before 2.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.35%
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- mitre
Description
The AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp in Sun Innotek VirtualBox before 2.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc/lock temporary file.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (11)
- 247326 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32851 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset?new=trunk%2Fsrc%2Flibs%2Fxpcom18a4%2Fipc%2Fipcd%2Fdaemon%2Fsrc%2FipcdUnix.cpp%4013810 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3410 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1021384 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504149 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- sun-virtualbox-ipcdunix-symlink(46826) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 32444 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:011 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_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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