CVE-2004-0971

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2005-02-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The krb5-send-pr script in the kerberos5 (krb5) package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.3.4

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136304
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-24.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-012.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11289
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17583
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc713534b10f9daeee2e0990239fa407e2118e4aa9e88a7041177497c%40%3Cissues.guacamole.apache.org%3E
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10497
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136304
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-24.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-012.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11289

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