CVE-2004-0395

high

Description

The xatitv program in the gatos package does not properly drop root privileges when the configuration file does not exist, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a system call.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16273

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10437

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-509

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-12-06

Updated: 2017-07-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H