CVE-2008-4191: Emacspeak Inc Emacspeak

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

extract-table.pl in Emacspeak 26 and 28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the extract-table.csv temporary file.

Affected products

• Emacspeak Inc Emacspeak: version 26.0 only; version 28.0 only

Published 2008-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.