CVE-2008-5138

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-5138 · Published 18/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5138 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting libpam mount (bkleineidam).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.29%, higher than 21.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libpam mount bkleineidam	`= 0.43`	No fix yet

passwdehd in libpam-mount 0.43 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/passwdehd.##### temporary file.

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