CVE-2008-4986: Georges Khaznadar Wims

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

wims 3.62 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/env#####, (b) /tmp/sed#####, and (c) /tmp/referer-home.log temporary files, related to the (1) coqweb and (2) account.sh scripts.

Affected products

• Georges Khaznadar Wims: version 3.6.2 only

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