CVE-2008-4085: Stephenjungels Plait

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

plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

Affected products

• Stephenjungels Plait: up to and including 1.5.2; version 0.50 only; version 0.51 only; version 0.52 only; version 0.53 only; version 0.54 only; …

Published 2008-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.