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CVE-2004-0880

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 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: 2005-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

getmail 4.x before 4.2.0, when run as root, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an mbox file.

Affected products

• gentoo Linux: 1.4
• Getmail: 2.3.7, 3.x, 4.0, 4.0.0_b10, 4.0.1, 4.0.2 (+17)
• Slackware Linux: 9.1, 10.0, current

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109571883130372&w=2
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-32.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-553
• http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/CHANGELOG
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17437
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109571883130372&w=2
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-32.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-553
• http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/CHANGELOG
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17437

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