CVE-2004-1181 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in htmlheadline versions prior to 21.8, affecting products by Toshiaki Kanosue. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. With a CVSS score of 4.6, it has low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
21.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:toshiaki_kanosue:htmlheadline:21.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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