CVE-2008-1687 (GCVE-0-2008-1687)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-09 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The (1) maketemp and (2) mkstemp builtin functions in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 do not quote their output when a file is created, which might allow context-dependent attackers to trigger a macro expansion, leading to unspecified use of an incorrect filename.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/29671 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/29729 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE |
Date Public
2008-04-06 00:00
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"current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:16:39+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2008-1687",
"id": "CVE-2008-1687",
"initial_release_date": "2008-04-02T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "m4: unquoted output of maketemp and mkstemp",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-1687.json",
"version": "3"
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-05-10T01:26:45Z",
"cve": "CVE-2008-1687",
"id": "CVE-2008-1687",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:08:36Z",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2008-1687",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2008-1687.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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