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CVE-2004-0971

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0971 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the krb5-send-pr script within the kerberos5 package, affecting Trustix Secure Linux versions 1.5 through 2.1 and potentially other operating systems. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files, leading to unauthorized file overwrites. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and low attack complexity, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 13th 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: krb5-0:1.2.7-38
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0971Low

security flaw

Sep 30, 2004

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17583
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rc713534b10f9daeee2e0990239fa407e2118e4aa9e88a7041177497c%40%3Cissues.guacamole.apache.org%3E
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10497
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-24.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-012.html
securityfocus.com / bid/11289
PatchVendor Advisory
trustix.org / errata/2004/0050