CVE-2004-2502

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.9%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDOct 25

1st PoCJul 13

exploitation probability

0.9%top 44% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

im-switch before 11.4-46.1 in Fedora Core 2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imswitcher[PID] temporary file.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/24278 cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.org/0407-advisories/fedora_im-switch_tempfile_race.txtunverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126940 http://packetstormsecurity.org/0407-advisories/fedora_im-switch_tempfile_race.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12037 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16682 http://www.osvdb.org/7772 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10717