CVE-2004-0881

CVE-2004-0881 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in getmail 4.x before 4.2.0 and other versions before 3.2.5, affecting various Linux distributions including Gentoo and Slackware. When getmail is run as root, a local attacker can exploit a symlink attack on maildir subdirectories to write files to arbitrary directories. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and no impact on confidentiality or availability, but potential impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has received some community discussion.