CVE-2004-0884

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

Affected products

Conectiva Linux: 9.0, 10.0
Cyrus Sasl: 1.5.24, 1.5.27, 1.5.28, 2.1.9, 2.1.10, 2.1.11 (+8)

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110693126007214&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-003.shtml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-563
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-568
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:106
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0053/
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2137

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