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CVE-2008-4638
qioadmin in the Quick I/O for Database feature in Symantec Veritas File System (VxFS) on HP-UX, and before 5.0 MP3 on Solaris, Linux, and…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
qioadmin in the Quick I/O for Database feature in Symantec Veritas File System (VxFS) on HP-UX, and before 5.0 MP3 on Solaris, Linux, and AIX, allows local users to read arbitrary files by causing qioadmin to write a file's content to standard error in an error message.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/310872.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20081022 SECOBJADV-2008-05: Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- symantec-vxfs-qioadmin-info-disclosure(46009) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.20.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2875 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31679 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.security-objectives.com/advisories/SECOBJSADV-2008-05.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4618 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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