cve/2008/CVE-2008-4940.md

### [CVE-2008-4940](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4940)
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### Description

xmlfile.py in aptoncd 0.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/aptoncd temporary file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.