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CVE-2004-1167

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• gentoo Mirrorselect: 0.80, 0.81, 0.82, 0.83, 0.84, 0.85 (+3)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/13392/
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-05.xml
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18382
• http://secunia.com/advisories/13392/
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-05.xml
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18382

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