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CVE-2003-1279

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

S-PLUS 6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly elevate privileges via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/__F8499 by Sqpe, (2) /tmp/PRINT.$$.out by PRINT, (3) /tmp/SUBST$PID.TXT and /tmp/ed.cmds$PID by mustfix.hlinks, (4) /tmp/file.1 and /tmp/file.2 by sas_get, (5) /tmp/file.1 by sas_vars, and (6) /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp1 /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp2 by sglm2html.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/7833
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11005.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/305342
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6530
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005896
• http://secunia.com/advisories/7833
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11005.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/305342
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6530
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005896

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