CVE-2004-2502

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

im-switch before 11.4-46.1 in Fedora Core 2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imswitcher[PID] temporary file.

Affected products

Im-Switch: all versions

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126940
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0407-advisories/fedora_im-switch_tempfile_race.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/12037
http://www.osvdb.org/7772
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10717
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16682
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126940
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0407-advisories/fedora_im-switch_tempfile_race.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/12037
http://www.osvdb.org/7772
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10717
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16682

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