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CVE-2004-0690

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0690 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting DCOPServer in KDE 3.2.3 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on DCOP files within the /tmp directory to gain unauthorized access. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/12276
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200408-13.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16962
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/330638
US Government Resource
kde.org / info/security/advisory-20040811-2.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/10924