FKIE_CVE-2004-1808

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2004-12-31 05:00 - Updated: 2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107910934926062&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9850
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15460
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107910934926062&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9850
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15460
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
metamail_corporation metamail 2.7
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  "id": "CVE-2004-1808",
  "lastModified": "2025-04-03T01:03:51.193",
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        "baseSeverity": "LOW",
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          "accessVector": "LOCAL",
          "authentication": "NONE",
          "availabilityImpact": "NONE",
          "baseScore": 2.1,
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
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  "vendorComments": [
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      "comment": "The Red Hat Security Response Team rated this issue as having low security impact. This issue affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 but due to the low severity will not be fixed.  metamail was not shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.",
      "lastModified": "2009-06-01T00:00:00",
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