CVE-2004-0996 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in cscope versions 15-4 and 15-5, as well as affected distributions like Debian, Gentoo, and SCO. The flaw stems from the predictable filenames used for temporary files, enabling local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack. With a low attack complexity and requiring local access, this vulnerability has a low impact on integrity (CVSS 2.1, I:P). While not actively exploited in the wild and not listed in the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
13.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:15.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:15.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cscope:cscope:15.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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