VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2004-0884

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-01-27
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

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