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CVE-2004-0283

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0283 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in Mailmgr version 1.2.3, allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. This is achieved through a symlink attack targeting temporary files like /tmp/mailmgr.unsort, /tmp/mailmgr.tmp, or /tmp/mailmgr.sort. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, despite some community discussion on GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailmgr:mailmgr:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15203
securityfocus.com / bid/9654
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