CVE-2004-1901

medium

Description

Portage before 2.0.50-r3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a hard link attack on the lockfiles.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15754

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200404-01.xml

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

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: 0.00054