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CVE-2004-1108

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1108 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in qpkg within Gentoolkit 0.2.0_pre10 and earlier, affecting Gentoo Linux. An attacker could exploit this by using a symlink attack on a temporary directory to overwrite arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, leading to a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB modules, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 22nd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/13108
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17968
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-13.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/11617
PatchVendor Advisory