CVE-2008-4477: Jim Trocki Mon

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

alert.d/test.alert in mon 0.99.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the test.alert.log temporary file.

Affected products

Published 2008-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.