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CVE-2004-0793

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
20/10/2004
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

The calendar program in bsdmainutils 6.0 through 6.0.14 does not drop root privileges when executed with the -a flag, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a calendar event file.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.20
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:debian:bsdmainutils:6.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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