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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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