CVE-2004-0881

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% 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, and other versions before 3.2.5, when run as root, allows local users to write files in arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on subdirectories in the maildir.

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/17439
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/17439

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