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CVE-2004-2698

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: yes
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service (IMWheel crash) and possibly modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imwheel.pid file.

Affected products

• Imwheel: through 1.0.0pre11

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/0914.html
• http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/files/DEVELOPMENT.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12349
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1011049
• http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2004-0002.txt
• http://www.osvdb.org/9111
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11008
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17082
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/0914.html
• http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/files/DEVELOPMENT.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12349
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1011049

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