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CVE-2004-0975

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0975 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in the der_chop script within the openssl package, affecting Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, Gentoo, and Mandrakesoft. This flaw allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and a potential impact limited to partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted or discussed vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mandrakesoft:mandrake_multi_network_firewall:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.6aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.6a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.6bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.6b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.6cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.6c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 61st 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: openssl-0:0.9.7a-33.15
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: openssl096b-0:0.9.6b-16.22.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openssl-0:0.9.7a-43.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openssl096b-0:0.9.6b-22.3
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0975Low

security flaw

Sep 30, 2004

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/12973
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17583
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10621
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A164
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-603
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-15.xml
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-476.html
securityfocus.com / bid/11293
PatchVendor Advisory
trustix.org / errata/2004/0050