CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0395

7.2 HIGH Published 2004-12-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV: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.

Affected configurations

• gatos gatos .5

References