CVE-2008-2266: Nzbget

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

uulib/uunconc.c in UUDeview 0.5.20, as used in nzbget before 0.3.0 and possibly other products, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary filename generated by the tempnam function. NOTE: this may be a CVE-2004-2265 regression.

Affected products

• Nzbget Nzbget: up to and including 0.2.2; version 0.1.0a only; version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.2.1 only
• Uudeview Uudeview: version 0.5.20 only

Published 2008-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.