CVE-2004-0880

medium

Description

getmail 4.x before 4.2.0, when run as root, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an mbox file.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17437

http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/CHANGELOG

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-553

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-32.xml

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109571883130372&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-01-27

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.2

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00079