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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.