CVE-2008-5139: Javier Fernandez Jailer

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

updatejail in jailer 0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/#####.updatejail temporary file.

Affected products

• Javier Fernandez Jailer: version 0.4 only

Published 2008-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.