CVE-2008-4940

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-4940 · Published 05/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4940 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting aptoncd (aptoncd).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.39%, higher than 33.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
aptoncd aptoncd	`= 0.1`	No fix yet

xmlfile.py in aptoncd 0.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/aptoncd temporary file.

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