VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2004-0395

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2004-12-06
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The xatitv program in the gatos package does not properly drop root privileges when the configuration file does not exist, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a system call.

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