CVE-2008-2936Not scoredCWE-264

CVE-2008-2936: Postfix vulnerability

Postfix

Vendor fix available · Affected: Postfix · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

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1.0%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

64th percentile

050100

Higher than 64% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls · Access Control
Vendor: Postfix
Published: August 2008
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), August 2008

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References

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