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CVE-2001-1378

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

fetchmailconf in fetchmail before 5.7.4 allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• fetchmail: through 5.7.2; 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.6 (+52)

References

• http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-announce/2001-March/000015.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-103.html
• http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-announce/2001-March/000015.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-103.html

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