CVE-2008-4580

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4580
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-10-15 20:08:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionfence_manual, as used in fence 2.02.00-r1 and possibly cman, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fence_manual.fifo temporary file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-59 | NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gentoo Cman 2.02.00 r1 All All
Application Gentoo Fence 2.02.00 r1 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: CVE Request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Gentoo Bug 240576 - sys-cluster/fence-2.02.00-r1 symlink vulnerability (CVE-2008-{4579,4580}) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
oss-security - Re: CVE Request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
USN-875-1: Red Hat Cluster Suite vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
CVE-2008-4580 - Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
467387 – (CVE-2008-4580) CVE-2008-4580 cman/fence: insecure temporary file usage in the manual fence agent MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-11-12Tomas HogerManual fencing agent is documented to only be provided for testing purposes and should not be used in production environments. Therefore, there is no plan to fix this flaw in Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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