CVE-2008-5313: Mailscanner

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

mailscanner 4.68.8 and other versions before 4.74.16-1 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on certain temporary files used by the (1) f-prot-autoupdate, (2) clamav-autoupdate, (3) avast-autoupdate, and (4) f-prot-6-autoupdate scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate/; the (5) bitdefender-wrapper, (6) kaspersky-wrapper, (7) clamav-wrapper, and (8) rav-wrapper scripts in /etc/MailScanner/wrapper/; the (9) Quarantine.pm, (10) TNEF.pm, (11) MessageBatch.pm, (12) WorkArea.pm, and (13) SA.pm scripts in /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/; (14) /usr/sbin/MailScanner; and (15) scripts that load the /etc/MailScanner/mailscanner.conf.with.mcp configuration file.

Affected products

• Mailscanner Mailscanner: version 4.68.8 only; version 4.68.8-1 only; version 4.69.9-3 only; version 4.70.7-1 only; version 4.71.10-1 only; version 4.72.5-1 only; …

Published 2008-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.