CVE-2017-8108: Cisofy Lynis

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified tests in Lynis before 2.5.0 allow local users to write to arbitrary files or possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Affected products

• Cisofy Lynis: before 2.5.0 (fixed in 2.5.0)

Published 2017-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.