CVE-2004-1167

mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2005-01-10

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Mirrorselect (Gentoo)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/13392/
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-05.xml
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18382