CVE-2004-2502

CVE-2004-2502 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in im-switch versions prior to 11.4-46.1 in Fedora Core 2. An attacker can exploit this flaw by using a symlink attack on the imswitcher[PID] temporary file, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact limited to partial integrity loss. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an exploit (EDB-24278) exists, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.