National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1808
Original release date:12/31/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (06/01/2009)
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The Red Hat Security Response Team rated this issue as having low security impact. This issue affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 but due to the low severity will not be fixed. metamail was not shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: XF
Name: metamail-extcompose-symlink(15460)
External Source: BID
Name: 9850
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040312 Metamail 'extcompose' script Symlink Vulnerability