PT-2008-6121 · Dhis · Dhis-Server

Published 2008-11-05 · Updated 2009-08-26 · CVE-2008-4947

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 dhis-server version 5.3

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/dhis-dummy-log-engine.log temporary file.

Recommendations For dhis-server version 5.3, consider restricting access to the temporary file /tmp/dhis-dummy-log-engine.log to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4947

Affected Products

Dhis-Server

References · 10

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dhis-server · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4947 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4947 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4947 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4947 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30900 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496388 · Note