CVE-2008-4997: Pilot-Qof Datafreedom-Perl

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

dfxml-invoice in datafreedom-perl 0.1.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/zenity temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that the vector is solely "an EXAMPLE used in the manpage.

Affected products

• Pilot-Qof Datafreedom-Perl: version 0.1.7 only

Published 2008-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.