CVE-2004-0279 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in AIM Sniff (aimSniff.pl) version 0.9b. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the system through a symlink attack targeting the /tmp/AS.log file. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aim_sniff:aim_sniff:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aim_sniff:aim_sniff:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aim_sniff:aim_sniff:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aim_sniff:aim_sniff:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9bCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aim_sniff:aim_sniff:0.9b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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