CVE-2004-0107 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting sysstat versions 4.0.7 and earlier, as well as specific Red Hat and SGI ProPack distributions. Attackers can exploit this flaw by leveraging symlink attacks on temporary files within the post and trigger scripts, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.7-3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:sysstat:4.0.7-3:*:i386:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sysstat:sysstat:4.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sysstat:sysstat:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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