CVE-2008-5151

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-5151 · Published 18/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5151 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting mayavi (abottoms).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.43%, higher than 37.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mayavi abottoms	`= 1.5`	No fix yet

test_parser.py in mayavi 1.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/err.log temporary file.

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