CVE-2004-1895 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

YaST Online Update (YOU) in SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on you-$USER/cookies.

Published: 2005-05-10

Score: 2.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:8.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.0::x86_64:::::

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-1888	YaST Online Update (YOU) in SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on you-$USER/cookies.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00098.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-04/0058.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108118395519164&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11300
http://securitytracker.com/id?1009668
http://www.osvdb.org/4985
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10047
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15731

History

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Subscriptions

Suse Suse Linux

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:07:48.885Z

Reserved: 2005-05-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-1895

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-1895

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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