CVE-2004-0655

medium

Description

eupdatedb in esearch 0.6.1 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the esearchdb.py.tmp temporary file.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16584

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2004-0654

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10644

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-01.xml

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-08-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

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: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00337