CVE-2008-4971: Align.bmr.kyushu-U.ac Mafft

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

mafft-homologs in mafft 6.240 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/_vf#?????, (2) /tmp/_if#?????, (3) /tmp/_pf#?????, (4) /tmp/_af#?????, (5) /tmp/_rid#?????, (6) /tmp/_res#?????, (7) /tmp/_q#?????, and (8) /tmp/_bf#????? temporary files.

Affected products

• Align.bmr.kyushu-U.ac Mafft: version 6.240 only

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