CVE-2008-4952: Emacs Emacs-Jabber

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

emacs-jabber in emacs-jabber 0.7.91 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/*.log temporary file.

Affected products

• Emacs Emacs-Jabber: version 0.7.91 only

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