CVE-2003-0438 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in eldav WebDAV client for Emacs, version 0.7.2 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing them to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 1.2) due to its high attack complexity and limited impact (partial integrity loss). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yuuichi_teranishi:eldav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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