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CVE-2004-2611

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Change Permissions function in the Sophster suite before 0.9.6 28 May 2004 (aka 0.9.6-r5), possibly including Sophster, FreeSophster, and FreeSophsterPAM, removes the (1) setuid, (2) setgid, and (3) sticky bits when changing a file, which might allow attackers to gain privileges or conduct other unauthorized activities.

Affected products

• Steven Schaefer Sophster: 0.9.5_r8, 0.9.5_r10, 0.9.5_r12, 0.9.5_r15, 0.9.6_r1, 0.9.6_r2 (+1)

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1010431
• http://www.osvdb.org/6657
• http://www.schaefer.dhcp.biz/CHANGELOG.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16359
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1010431
• http://www.osvdb.org/6657
• http://www.schaefer.dhcp.biz/CHANGELOG.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16359

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