CVE-2004-1377 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting a2ps versions prior to 4.13, specifically within the fixps and psmandup scripts. This flaw allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files through a symbolic link attack on temporary files. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it is considered low severity, requiring local access and resulting in potential data integrity impact without confidentiality or availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:a2ps:4.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.13bCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:a2ps:4.13b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux_home:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:turbolinux:turbolinux_server:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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