CVE-2004-2615 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact.

Published: 2005-12-04

Score: 4.6 Medium

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 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cutephp:cutenews:1.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-2606	The documentation for CuteNews 1.3.6 and possibly other versions specifies that files under cutenews/data must be manually given world-writable permissions, which allows local users to insert false news, delete news, and possibly gain privileges or have other unknown impact.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00051.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-08/0396.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011099
http://www.osvdb.org/9385
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17161

History

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Subscriptions

Cutephp Cutenews

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-12-04T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:36:24.225Z

Reserved: 2005-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-2615

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2004-2615

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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