CVE-2008-4956

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-4956 · Published 05/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4956 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting fwbuilder (firewallbuilder).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.41%, higher than 35.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
fwbuilder firewallbuilder	`= 2.1.19`	No fix yet

fwb_install in fwbuilder 2.1.19 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/ssh-agent.##### temporary file.

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