CVE-2008-3524

mediumpriority · track · 19EPSS 0.003 · 28 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.35% (28th) EPSS

CVSS 4.7 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

rc.sysinit in initscripts before 8.76.3-1 on Fedora 9 and other Linux platforms allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file or directory under (1) /var/lock or (2) /var/run.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.7

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.7mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 6.9

v2.04mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimary

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
redhat fedora= 9nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat initscripts= 8.76.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:initscripts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-09-29modified 2026-06-16

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references (18)

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