CVE-2008-2936 | Date: (C)2008-08-18 (M)2023-12-22 |
Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending a message. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges if there is a symlink to an init script.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -CVSS V2 Severity: |
CVSS Score : 6.2 |
Exploit Score: 1.9 |
Impact Score: 10.0 |
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CVSS V2 Metrics: |
Access Vector: LOCAL |
Access Complexity: HIGH |
Authentication: NONE |
Confidentiality: COMPLETE |
Integrity: COMPLETE |
Availability: COMPLETE |
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