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CVE-2008-5299

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.9)—

chm2pdf 0.9 allows user-assisted local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .chm files in the (1) /tmp/chm2pdf/work or (2) /tmp/chm2pdf/orig temporary directories.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Karakas-online — Chm2pdf

CWEs

References

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