CVE-2004-1445

high

Description

A race condition in nessus-adduser in Nessus 2.0.11 and possibly earlier versions, if the TMPDIR environment variable is not set, allows local users to gain privileges.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16768

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10784

http://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-11.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/12127/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-12-31

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.7

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00073