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CVE-2004-0976

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0976 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple Perl scripts in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems. Attackers can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 63rd 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: perl-2:5.8.0-90.4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0976Low

security flaw

Sep 30, 2004

References

fedoranews.org / updates/FEDORA--.shtml
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/17661
secunia.com / advisories/18075
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17583
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9752
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-620
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-881.html
securityfocus.com / bid/11294
PatchVendor Advisory
trustix.org / errata/2004/0050