CVE-2009-5081

lowpriority · track · 13EPSS 0.003 · 22 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.29% (22nd) EPSS

CVSS 3.3 · low

Is it mine?

17 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The (1) config.guess, (2) contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl, and (3) contrib/groffer/perl/roff2.pl scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier use an insufficient number of X characters in the template argument to the tempfile function, which makes it easier for local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0969.

cvss

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

3.3

010

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

v2.03.3lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 4.9

v2.02.8lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimary

affected products (17)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gnu groff≤ 1.21nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.11anvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.15nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.16nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.16.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.17.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.17.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.18.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.19nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.19.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.19.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.20nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu groff= 1.20.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2011-06-30modified 2026-06-16

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