CVE-2001-1378 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in fetchmailconf, a component of fetchmail versions prior to 5.7.4. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files belonging to other users through a symlink attack on temporary files. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and a potential impact limited to data integrity. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.