CVE-2004-0233
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Utempter allows device names that contain .. (dot dot) directory traversal sequences, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on device names in combination with an application that trusts the utmp or wtmp files.
- EPSS
- 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- sgi:propack
- slackware:slackware_linux
- utempter:utempter