CVE-2008-4941: Arb Project Arb-Common

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

arb-common 0.0.20071207.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/arb_fdnaml_*, (b) /tmp/arb_pids_*, (c) /tmp/arbdsmz.html, and (d) /tmp/arbdsmz.htm temporary files, related to the (1) arb_fastdnaml and (2) dszmconnect.pl scripts.

Affected products

• Arb Project Arb-Common: version 0.0 only

Published 2008-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.