CVE-2008-4108: Python Software Foundation Python

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh (aka the generic FAQ wizard moving tool) in Python 2.4.5 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a tmp$RANDOM.tmp temporary file. NOTE: there may not be common usage scenarios in which tmp$RANDOM.tmp is located in an untrusted directory.

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Published 2008-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.