CVE-2009-3304 — GForge 4.5.14, 4.7 rc2, and 4.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on authorized_keys files in users' home directories, related to deb-specific/ssh_dump_update.pl and cronjobs/cvs-cron/ssh_create.php

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GForge 4.5.14, 4.7 rc2, and 4.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on authorized_keys files in users' home directories, related to deb-specific/ssh_dump_update.pl and cronjobs/cvs-cron/ssh_create.php

Published Dec 4, 2009

3.3

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.31%

Description

GForge 4.5.14, 4.7 rc2, and 4.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on authorized_keys files in users' home directories, related to deb-specific/ssh_dump_update.pl and cronjobs/cvs-cron/ssh_create.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.31% 0.00314

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00314

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	0.31% (0.00314)	22.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.31% (0.00314)	22.86th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.03% (0.00030)	5.49th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-59

References (3)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch13.diff.gz
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1945
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37195
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gforge/gforge_4.5.14-22etch13.diff.gz		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1945		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37195		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 4, 2009

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Sep 22, 2009

Link CVE-2009-3304

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-3304

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-3304