CVE-2008-1569

LOW 3.3CVE-2008-1569 · Published 31/03/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1569 is a LOW (CVSS 3.3) vulnerability affecting policyd-weight (policyd-weight).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.43%, higher than 37.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
policyd-weight policyd-weight	`≤ 0.1.14`	No fix yet

Description

policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 and earlier allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files that are used when creating a socket.

References

secunia.com/advisories/29553 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/29738 · Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531
osvdb.org/43888
policyd-weight.org
securityfocus.com/bid/28480 · Patch
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41565

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