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NVD Vulnerability Details :

CVE-2004-1808

Deferred

Source-cve@mitre.org

Published At-31 Dec, 2004 | 05:00

Updated At-03 Apr, 2025 | 01:03

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.

Date Added	Due Date	Vulnerability Name	Required Action
	N/A

Metrics

Type	Version	Base score	Base severity	Vector
Primary	2.0	2.1	LOW	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CPE Matches

metamail_corporation>>metamail>>2.7

cpe:2.3:a:metamail_corporation:metamail:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Weaknesses

CWE ID	Type	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Primary	nvd@nist.gov

Vendor Statements

Organization : Red Hat

Last Modified : 2009-06-01T00:00:00

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.

References

Hyperlink	Source	Resource
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107910934926062&w=2	cve@mitre.org	N/A
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9850	cve@mitre.org	N/A
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15460	cve@mitre.org	N/A
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107910934926062&w=2	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	N/A
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9850	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	N/A
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15460	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	N/A

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