PT-2008-5260 · Citadel · Citadel Server

Robert Buchholz · Published 2008-09-04 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3930

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Citadel Server version 7.37

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file created by the migrate aliases.sh script.

Recommendations For Citadel Server version 7.37, consider restricting access to the migrate aliases.sh script until a patch is available, or apply a workaround to prevent symlink attacks on temporary files created by the script.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3930

Affected Products

Citadel Server

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3930 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31648 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3930 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496359 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30877 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44734 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/citadel-server · Note