CVE-2008-5375: Cmus

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

cmus-status-display in cmus 2.2.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/cmus-status temporary file.

Affected products

• Cmus Cmus: version 2.2.0 only

Published 2008-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.