CVE-2008-4476: Sympa

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.

Affected products

• Sympa Sympa: version 5.3.4 only

Published 2008-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.