CVE-2008-4953: Firehol

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

firehol in firehol 1.256 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/.firehol-tmp-#####-*-* and (2) /tmp/firehol.conf temporary files. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that an attack "would require an attacker to create 1073741824*PID-RANGE symlinks.

Affected products

• Firehol Firehol: version 1.256 only

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