CVE-2004-0647

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: 2004-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

shorewall 1.4.10c and earlier, and 2.0.x before 2.0.3a, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the chains-$$ temporary file.

Affected products

Shorewall: 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.3a, 1.4.4 (+10)

References

http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-announce/2004-June/000385.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-07.xml
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:080
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16651
http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-announce/2004-June/000385.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-07.xml
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:080
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16651

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