CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-0793
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2004-10-20
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The calendar program in bsdmainutils 6.0 through 6.0.14 does not drop root privileges when executed with the -a flag, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a calendar event file.
Affected configurations
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.1
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.2
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.3
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.4
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.5
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.6
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.7
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.8
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.9
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.10
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.11
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.12
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.13
• debian bsdmainutils 6.0.14
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109396230317359&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11077 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17162 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109396230317359&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11077 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17162 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com