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CVE-2004-0231

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0231 describes multiple vulnerabilities in Midnight Commander (mc) versions prior to 4.6.0, specifically related to insecure temporary file and directory creation. The CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) indicates a low-severity issue, requiring local access for an attacker to achieve partial integrity impact, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.5.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.41CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.43CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.44CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch
gentoovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0231Moderate

security flaw

Apr 29, 2004

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200405-21.xml
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16020
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-497
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2004_12_mc.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-172.html