CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-2303

3.6 LOW Published 2004-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

MTools Mformat before 3.9.9, when installed setuid root, creates files with world-readable and world-writable permissions, which allows local users to read and overwrite files.

Affected configurations

• mtools mformat 3.9.1 • mtools mformat 3.9.2 • mtools mformat 3.9.3 • mtools mformat 3.9.4 • mtools mformat 3.9.5 • mtools mformat 3.9.6 • mtools mformat 3.9.7 • mtools mformat 3.9.8 • mtools mformat 3.9.9

References