CVE-2004-1382 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the glibcbug script within glibc versions 2.3.4 and earlier. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symbolic link attack on temporary files. With a CVSS score of 2.1, it is considered low severity, requiring local access and having a low attack complexity, primarily impacting integrity (I:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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