CVE-2008-5147: Holloway Docvert

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

test-pipe-to-pyodconverter.org.sh in docvert 2.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/outer.odt temporary file.

Affected products

• Holloway Docvert: version 2.4 only

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