CVE-2008-5379: Oliver Gorwits Netdisco Mibs Installer

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

netdisco-mibs-installer 1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/netdisco-mibs-0.6.tar.gz temporary file, related to the (1) netdisco-mibs-install and (2) netdisco-mibs-download scripts.

Affected products

• Oliver Gorwits Netdisco Mibs Installer: version 1.0 only

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