CVE-2004-0559 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Usermin versions 1.070 and 1.080, affecting products from Mandrakesoft, Usermin, and Webmin. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files during installation via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.usermin directory. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this is a low-severity vulnerability with low attack complexity and no impact on confidentiality or availability, but potential for partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:1.000:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:1.010:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.020CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:1.020:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.030CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:1.030:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.040CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:usermin:usermin:1.040:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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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 records are not available for this CVE.