CVE-2004-1179

CVE-2004-1179 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the debstd script within debmake versions 3.6.x before 3.6.10 and 3.7.x before 3.7.7, affecting Debian systems. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary directories to overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of modifying files, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.