CVE-2008-2936

Postfix - Access Control

Title source: rule

Description

Postfix before 2.3.15, 2.4 before 2.4.8, 2.5 before 2.5.4, and 2.6 before 2.6-20080814, when the operating system supports hard links to symlinks, allows local users to append e-mail messages to a file to which a root-owned symlink points, by creating a hard link to this symlink and then sending a message. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges if there is a symlink to an init script.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by RoMaNSoFt · bashlocallinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6337

References (33)

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Scores

EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 48.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (28)
postfix/postfix 2.3.0
postfix/postfix 2.3.1
postfix/postfix 2.3.2
postfix/postfix 2.3.3
postfix/postfix 2.3.4
postfix/postfix 2.3.5
postfix/postfix 2.3.6
postfix/postfix 2.3.7
postfix/postfix 2.3.8
postfix/postfix 2.3.9
... and 18 more
Published Aug 18, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026