CVE-2008-5371

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-5371 · Published 08/12/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5371 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting screenie (marc gloor).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 27.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
screenie marc_gloor	`= 1.30.0`	No fix yet

screenie in screenie 1.30.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.screenie.##### temporary file.

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